55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Save Hyde Park Square

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her phone right now, at least traditionally so she could
still be asleep. Todd ens or Citizen Watchdog last week,
wonderful comment. I just love listening to Todd's enser. He
breaks down all the information, keeping a sharp eye on

(01:15):
what I will call shenanigans going on within the city
of Cincinnati, a variety of different topics. Todd is a
it's a worthy podcast, a Citizen Watchdog, and I appreciate
Jos Trecker posting that on Facebook and the link to that,
so it's easy to find Citizen Watchdog, search for it
and listen to what Todd has to say regularly. Brandon

(01:36):
Nixon joined the program. He's running for city council. I
guess we're down in the high twenties for total number
of qualified candidates to run, folks that have got enough signatures,
Like originally forty six people look like they were going
to run, but we've now went a little way to
some of the high twenties. I think it was twenty six,
don't quote me on that, but quite a big number
of people to choose from. Of course, I strongly encourage

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you to consider at least Christopher smith Love Christopher. He's
coming up on the program this morning, seven twenty Every
Monday at seven twenty for the smither Van former vice
mayor of the City of Cincinnati, hopefully councilman Christopher Smithman
after November election. Of course, it's Monday, so we get
Brian James from all Worth Financial Money Monday today. Powell
opening the door to interest rate cut. Interesting times in

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terms of the numbers, employment numbers, inflation numbers and all that.
So number two, will the market crash danger will Robin Robinson?
Will the market crash finally? Or just pullbacks? Johnson's the

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returns of the program. He's the save Hyde Park Square guy.
Got that petition circulated. They're going to have a vote
on that for Hyde Park folks to reclaim there. What
I presume or Art would argue is their right to
determine the future of their own neighborhood in spite of
what the city council people have said and the mayor
has said. So we'll get the latest on what's going
on in Hyde Park. I know that the well connect

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the developers who were getting their way at least expressed
some interest to sitting down on the table and changing
the design plans that were approved by the city Council
over the objections of the residents of High Park. See,
there's an opportunity for Hyde Park to go a different direction.
Because November is coming up, maybe you lect some folks
that might listen to you. And of course tomorrow Bright

(03:21):
bart inside scoop of that Daniel Davis Deep Dive and
that Deep Dives should be very interesting considering the situation
involving Russia and Ukraine seems like it's deteriorating more than anything.
Five and three seven eight hundred eighty two three talk. Now,
I didn't not sure where to start, but this one

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initially kind of shocked me, and then I just I realized,
you know, this is online, and if you put something
out there, you can probably get literally anyone to sign it,
or at least some slice of the percentage of the population.
And so here we have a petition urging Florida official
to show lean and see to her genders. Sing. You
may recall the illegal immigrant truck driver that crashed doing

(04:06):
an illegal U turn and a semi tractor trailer, resulting
in three people dying. Petition on change dot org addressed
to Florida Governor Rohn de Santas, calling for De Santis
and the Florida Board of Executive Clemency to take a
look at the case against this sing guy who's now
facing three counts of vehicular homicide and three counts of manslaughter,

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which seems logical and reasonable to me under the circumstances
horrific accident, and no one can ever even come close
to justifying that U turn under the circumstances that were
present when they did the U turn in a semi
tractor trailer truck.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
It was just.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Gross negligence at minimum, wilful and wanton. Anyway, twenty eight
year old Harjinger sing operate a commercial semi truck with
a trailer on a Florida turnpike for Pierce tempted the
U turn in an unauthorized area. The tractor trailer attractor
trailer jack knife collide with a minivan and again all
three people in the minivan dead. Now he was arrested

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in stock in California August sixteenth, extra died to Florida
investigator determined he and his passenger, Arneit Singh, fled to
sacrament Of the Sacrament of the day after the crash,
so over the weekend, Florida Judge A denied bond to
sing ruling that he's an unauthorized alien and underscore a
substantial flight risk. I think it was demonstrated's a substantial

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flight risk because he fled to Sacramento, California, the day
after the accident. Yeah, well that's flight I know it
stayed within the United States, but there he went. Judge
also found probable cause for all six charges against Singh
classified them as forcible felonies under Florida law. Now, as
so far as the petition is concerned, this was a

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tragic accident, not a deliberate act. While accountability matters, the
severity of charges against him does not align with the
circumstances of the incident. Tian requested Seeh received a proportionate
and reasonable sentence that for all eligibility be granted after
part of his sentences served, and then alternatives to our
incarceration like counseling or community service be considered. Petition signed

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by collective Punjabi youth.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Now.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
He came into the United States in twenty eighteen illegally
via the Southern border. Later obtained a commercial driver's license
in Californians by to the fact that he couldn't read English,
couldn't speak or maybe I don't know about speaking English.
He certainly couldn't read englishipton widely reported attempt to attain
work authorization during the Trump administration. He was denied that subsequently,
and the Biden administration granted work authorization. So as of

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last week, Rubio, the Secretary of State. Rubia said, now
we're halting work visas for foreign commercial truck driver. But
so far, at least as yesterday, two and a half
million folks have signed this petition seeking some form of
clemency for hardender sing. Two and a half million people

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took interest in this, and my initial reaction was, Oh
my god, that's where did these people come from? And
then I contemplated, well, how many people live in the
United States of America. I know it's men, women, and children.
You've got children in there. I guess they could go
online and sign a change dot org petition. I don't
recall ever being asked for did they ask for your

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age or anything? When you do that, Joe, you just
sign it, right, You don't know. But we live in
a world fill of billions of people, and I suppose
that with the Punjabi outreach, you might get a lot
of folks that are of similar race, ethnicity, or maybe
just don't believe they should be prosecuting this guy to
sign a petition. So my initial reaction was, oh my god,

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how could he come up with that much support. It
just made me realize, well, in a world filled with
so many people, at least some slice of those people
are going to have well, something that I might characterize
in my personal subjective opinion as batcrap insane positions. So

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if you put a petition out there, if you build it,
they will come. If you put it on change dot org,
you'll get some signatures regardless of what you're asking for.
So anyway, I thought that was rather unusual. Uh here
in the state of Ohio. This is actually, I think
a pretty good development dealing with crime issues. And I

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know Donald Trump's considering expanding his National Guard deployment to
a variety of other cities, including Chicago and Baltimore. It's
worked in DC. The numbers of the amount of crime
has dropped precipitously since Donald Trump deployed the National Guard.
I don't think he has the legal authority to do
it in Chicago or balti more, unless he limits it
to some emergency relating to protecting federal personnel and federal property.

(09:08):
I don't think that the National Guard can go out
and patrol in the greater Chicago streets the broader Baltimore
city streets, enforcing what state crimes. Don't think he has
legal authority to do that. Quite honestly, DC a horse
of a different Color because they can suspend the.

Speaker 6 (09:25):
Home Rule.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Within legal bounds. The Home Rule Act in nineteen seventy
three can be suspended as long as it's temporary, but
a permanent repeal is going to require an Act of Congress.
So just has to show the local leaders are not
doing their jobs when it comes to law enforcement, which
I think he said and he has done, and he
deployed the National Guard, but he's on a TikTok TikTok
running clock. But at least the legal authority exists there.

(09:52):
I don't know how he's going to come up with
it for Chicago Baltimore again, unless it's limited to, you know,
sort of standing around and protecting federal property and federal people.
The state of Ohio, the Hio Fraternal Order Police has
a campaign Protect Ohio Police was initiative launched in June
seeking to hold prosecutors, judges, mayors, legislators, everybody's involved in
law enforcement accountable grading their performance. This campaign Protect Ohio

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Police started after two officers of myth And Township were
shot and the subsequent plea plea gill a deal given
to the suspected shooter. DEVIANTE. Dixon Union criticized the deal
as a sweetheart plea, which they argue allowed Dixon to
remain out of prison and then go on to shoot
two officers. Now, apparently, as of last week, they added

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two names to the Ohio protect Police Hall of Shame.
Number one congratulation Iris Rawleigh. You may know her. She's
the activist consultant hired by the City of Cincinnati, specifically
mayor aft have provol or manager law regardless, she's on

(11:02):
the payroll the City of Cincinnati, and she goes all
the way back to the consent decree. I paid a
pivotal role in that. But she is an anti police activist,
just demonstrably so. And of course she was recently seen
and filmed and witnessed harassing police officers while they were
doing their job. So of course the Fraternal Older Police

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is urging the City of Cincinnati to terminate her contract.
And apparently Raley's supporters had well a little rallied backer
in front of CINCINNTI City Hall. The city manager described
as currently reviewing the incident. Hold your breath, I wouldn't.
I don't think there's any way that the provol administration

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is going to cancel its contract with Iris. Rawley. Now, why, well,
because there's an election coming up, and I'm sure they've
weighed the value of Iris Rawley staying in her position,
given her influence among many folks in the community, the
fact that she might argue that you shouldn't vote for
f Tab Paraval or any other member of Cincinnai City
Council to the extent they terminate her contract. She carries

(12:09):
some weight in the community. But then you have the
rest of the city of Cincinnati, who might view Iris
Rawley as an impedimental law enforcement a city of Cincinnati
that probably once safer streets, residents of the city who
probably want a full contingent of police officers deal with
a runaway clime in their neighborhood. So there's the pivot,

(12:32):
the counterbalance. When you're standing there in a f tab
par ofvll she is which direction do you go supporting
law enforcement? Which I would argue necessitates getting rid of
Iris Raleigh, who is the antithesis of someone supporting law enforcement.
And supporting law enforcement something that Christopher smithm has been
clamoring for city officials to do for such a long time.

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It's so simple. You want to improve the relationship between
the community and this and the police officers get out
there and show some support for police, explain the value
of them. There's no need for us to condemn and
belittle and and otherwise interfere with police. So go ahead
make that balance. I just think it's pretty comical that
right there number one on the hit parade for the

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Protect Ohio Police program IRIS Raleigh five eighteen fifty five
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That is five twenty two Happy Monday Tea five p
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two three talks coun five to fifty on AT and
T phones. Oh why not talk about inflation? I couldn't
kill it. I couldn't get over the price of these
football games. Cost of attending an NFL game has jumped
forty percent in the last ten years on average. Wait

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till you hear how much it is Philadelphia Eagles. They
did a ticket price search. Finance Buzz did the research
on this. On average lowest price for two non standing
room tickets on the secondary market. That means you're not
buying it from the box office now cost one hundred
and fifty eight dollars per person on average, higher than

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the overall US inflation rate. When I read this figure,
and I presume that it's accurate, the US inflation rate
thirty two percent since twenty fourteen. So that's seems really
really steep to me, but we are all dealing with inflation.
Coming to number one most expensive NFL football game Philadelphia
Eagles at five hundred and thirty eight bucks. Steepest jump

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Detroit Lions that went from ninety two dollars back in
twenty fourteen to two hundred and seventy seven dollars this
past year, two hundred and one percent increase. The Bengals
in the top big increases Buffalo Bills up one hundred
and five percent, Dolphins one hundred and three rams ninety
eight percent, The Bengals are up ninety seven percent. Adding
in salt injury, the price of beer, Jeez Louise price

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of beer, Washington Commanders coming in at number one. Back
in twenty fourteen, you could get a beer, a sixteen
ounce beer for six dollars and fifty five cents, and
I'm sure you probably lamented having to pay that back
in twenty fourteen and out cost you sixteen dollars and
forty nine cents for a sixteen ounce beer. Jeez Louise

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routing out the top ten. Tampa Bay Bucks fourteen and
a quarter over the Rams, Los Angeles Rams fourteen bucks.
Giants cost you thirteen, Jets thirteen, Chargers fourteen, just under
thirteen at the for the Texans games, Dolphins twelve dollars,
Panthers ten forty nine, and Las Vegas Raiders fourteen ninety nine.

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Now those are the top ten in terms of the
percent increase as high as one hundred and fifty two
percent for that Commander's beer. Seventy four percent increase from
the Raiders seems to me. Last time I was at
a Bengals game, it cost you like twelve bucks for
a beer. You may know better than me, but that's outrageous,
which I think is why they encourage tailgating. Got to
pay for that extra space so tailgaters can come and

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consume mass quantities before going into the game. Keep that
buzz going with a single beer purchase for the balance
of the game. Your average Joe can't afford to go
to a game. I think that's really no reason I
brought this up. Meanwhile, taxpayers in the state of Ohio

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are throwing six hundred million dollars at the Cleveland Browns,
where the crunched price ninety six dollars for the Browns.
I guess that's a value compared to the Bengals game.
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Very Happy Monday to you five one, three two three
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like as his tradition, Tom's on the line. Welcome Tom,
Happy Monday to you. It's always a pleasure hearing from you.

Speaker 9 (17:24):
Yeah, good morning. You didn't that feel nice when you
walked outside this morning?

Speaker 10 (17:28):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (17:28):
My god, thought awesome? And yesterday what a gorgeous day.
I am so happy. This is right, my sweet spot.

Speaker 10 (17:35):
Definitely a welcome change of face.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 10 (17:38):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (17:40):
As far as these NFL ticket prices and all the
prices in charge for stuff in the stadiums and everything,
I'm gonna I'm gonna in honor of your dad. I'm
gonna I'm gonna tell them I've got two orders for you.
They ain't happy birthday, amen, they get stuck.

Speaker 10 (17:56):
But I have had no interest in paying that guy.

Speaker 9 (17:59):
It's like concerts too.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
When I was growing up and then you know, my.

Speaker 9 (18:04):
Early my my teens and early twenties, I went to
a lot of concerts South Florida. I mean you name
a band I saw them. I mean big bands in
Orange Bowl and all kinds of stuff. And guess and
I could afford it twelve dollars to a concert anymore.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Let me guess it was twelve dollars or eleven dollars.

Speaker 10 (18:23):
It was pretty low.

Speaker 9 (18:25):
I think I remember like the biggest, I don't know
was Pink Floyd or YouTube. And this is when when
YouTube was in its prime or something, it was like
twenty five bucks.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Maybe yeah, that's just yeah.

Speaker 9 (18:35):
Now it's like you can't you can't even park for
twenty five bucks. An I should say, if you're you're
talking about the political stuff, and you were talking about
the list these people have of you know, the whole
of shame of all these I say, keep leave her on,

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leave all these people in place. Just keep pointing it
out and highlighting their stupidity and what they're doing and
the things that they're supporting.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Just keep you know, sounding the alarm.

Speaker 9 (19:08):
I mean, I think that was a large part of
why there's been especially why Trump got elected, because all
of this stuff is being shown and exposed for what
the Democrats are doing.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
This is what they're all about.

Speaker 9 (19:24):
And the more people that find out what they're all about,
and the more people that realize what they stand for,
the more likely they're gonna lose voters. And we're gonna
get some more over here on this side. And uh,
and we're gonna win more elections. So I say, leave
her there, let her do her thing, let her show
what she's made of, and everybody else pay attention.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
And don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Have a great Dame Brian appreciate that. Yeah, I mean,
that's the balancing act that the pro Bowl administration has
to go through. Do I keep Iris rolling in their
position and and you know, sort of as a nod,
a nudge, a win to the people that Irish rely
has some measure of influence over and then pause and
reflect on how is it that that woman might have

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so much political power? The message that she seems to
convey regularly is an anti police sentiment. Police are all racist.
We need to defund them. We need to stop arresting
people that sort of woke view of criminal justice, which
seems to be failing across every city in the country

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that has adopted that strategy. And if you look, a
lot of people have been interviewed in Washington, d C.
After this takeover and they're pretty dang happy that they
can feel comfortable and safe enough to walk outside of
their house. Many black people interviewed in a variety of
these articles saying the same thing. Now, of course there
are some anti Trump takeover activists in the name he's fascist,

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he's I don't know what he's doing. He's taking over,
this is unlawful, this is causing concern within the community.
But it's also providing some measure of stability and safety.
How do you balance that which is more important? I
think a message of safety and security is far more
important than the optics of having Iris Rawley stay around. No,
we disagree. Look, she is on camera interfering with police

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doing their job, and in the particular case where we
have on video, the police are doing a wonderful job.
That police woman is doing a great job of de escalating,
which is exactly what the plea is. We don't need
to use violence. We don't need to arrest people. You
need to de escalate. You know, stop what you're doing.
You're breaking the law. Empty the open container, you're not
in a dora, and move on your way. We don't

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need people from the general you know, citizen ree and
irish Rally has no capacity other than this role she
plays with the city. She's just another citizen walking around
and in interfering with the police. She might be used
as an example hold her out. Look, if we have
to issue a citation a fourth degree misdemeanor to the
white guy who slapped the black eye, which you know

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was part of that drunken or maybe drunken that brawl
that back in the end of July, then here's Iris
Raleigh demonstrably breaking the law. So we're going to cite
her too. They could do that, but what what would happen?
You get the backlash from those folks who are influenced
by and otherwise swayed by Iris Rawley's comments. The fact

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that she has that much sway presumably is troubling in
and of itself. Two men acues are speaking of pay
Corpse Stadium. They didn't buy tickets. Arrested Sunday after breaking
into pay Corp Stadium early Sunday morning. Hamilton County court
documents so that Caleb Tarrong nineteen taking into custody SUSA

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Sunday after you're breaking into pay Corp Stadium. Nearby surveillance
footage show him jumping over a lock fence and attempted
to steal a barbecue smoker fishal showed up at the stadium.
He ran further inside pay Corps. A caneine officer deployed
and dog located him, and he was then taken into custody,
drawing booked in the Hamilton County Jail about four forty am.
Another man, eight year old Alexander Weingart, also arrested early

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Sunday after breaking into pay Corps. Cour to the documents,
he was arrested based on an officer's investigation and security
statement booked into the Hamilton County Jail four forty five AM.
Didn't specify in the court documents any connection between Turong
and Wineguard. Both men are facing one kind of breaking
and entering and scheduled appear for arrayment this morning. If
you're not doing anything, let's see here. Finally, cruise searching

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for the body of Ohio River after a body in
the Ohio River man reportedly jumped from the Purple People
Bridge twenty third of this month. News release in the
Cinciety Fire Department said both multiple agencies were dispatched about
eleven in the morning after reports of a person jumping
into the river between Cincin North the Kentucky. Once on
the scene, first responders confirmed from multiple people that someone

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didn't even jump. Several boats deployed from Cincinnati as well
as Covington Fire all searching for the man. He was
not found. After forty minutes of searching in the area.
It was search was turned over to Boone County Water
rescuing him on County Underwater Dive and Recovery Team. Got
any information regarding the incident, please get in touch with
Sinceint Police Department at five one, three, seven, six, five

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twelve twelve, five point thirty five. Right now fifty five
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Jay.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Hold on, brother, I will be happy to take your
call when I get back. Just a minute.

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Hold on This is fifty five karc An iHeartRadio station.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
I have you one to you Fen Thomas, always always
enjoying talking to the listeners. Got a couple of callers online.
We'll start with Jay was kind of up the hold
over the break. Jay, welcome back to the morning show.
Good to hear from you as always.

Speaker 11 (24:41):
Hey, good morning, Brian.

Speaker 10 (24:43):
Hey.

Speaker 11 (24:43):
You know I recall as a person who grew up
in the seventies and eighties, I remember the NFL was built,
and you know, Cleveland would have the Dog Pound and
Pittsburgh Staylors would have the steel workers in the stadiums
during the years when the pitch was winning everything.

Speaker 12 (25:02):
Iron, Curt and I'm sure the same.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Go ahead, No, I just said I remember the iron
was it the iron curtain and what they called the
defensive line?

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (25:10):
Absolutely, And and that whole league was built on blue
collar folks going out here and supporting those teams and
buying season tickets. But now you think about I think
the median income for the average American is about fifty
thousand dollars a year. So if you're gonna take your
family a flour down to the game, now it's gonna

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cost you five hundred bucks to get in and probably
another two hundred bucks to eat, to have a few beers.
Seven hundred bucks per game, what is there? Five to
eight home games? That is a massive percentage of the
median income of fifty thousand dollars a year. What the

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league has done is flipped the double middle finger at
the people that built that, the people who can can
you to have unwavering loyalty to a team that they
can no longer go see in person? So here's the end.
You know, they're ultra left, ultra left, both the Reds
and the Browns, Red and the Bengals. I'm sorry, And

(26:19):
if people need to just let it go and and
figure out if the Bengals go to let's say Nashville, Tennessee,
you can still sit on your couch and enjoy watching
them on TV and your life changes zero. And the
same thing with the Red You know we talked about
Irish Rowley.

Speaker 6 (26:36):
Have they come out with.

Speaker 11 (26:37):
A statement since they you know, they somebody sat around
the table at the Red Office front office and decided
that they needed to hand out awards to somebody who
was exhibiting the behavior that they support. Have they come
out since then and retracted that or or or or
we can believe. Okay, so they support her, then they

(26:58):
like what she's doing the anti police. They like the
way she runs her mouth. That's what the Cincinnati reads
backs that correct.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
I can't speak for the Reds, but I do know
that Iris Rali remains in her consulting position, at least
as far as I know. There has been no reporting
that the city has let her go.

Speaker 11 (27:16):
So yeah, Well, and the Reds gave her an award recently, right,
special recognition. Yeah, of some some some award that they
hand out. Now, why would a baseball team hand out
an award other than too I guess reward behavior that
they applaud and so so there's another example. Folks of

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the Bengals and the Reds are not the friends of
the right. These are work organizations. The Reds were way behind,
if you know, Black Lives Matter, as was the NFL.
So keep your money in your pocket, stay at home.
They priced you out of the market. They're no longer
interested in you. And as my buddy Tom, and this

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belongs to Tom, and I only say it out of
respect for Tom.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
Is don't vote Democrat, thank you, Jay? Yeah, I mean
we do have choices, we don't have to abide, and
I have to acknowledge that, you know, capitalism, the laws
of supplying the man are really what influences the price
of these tickets, because you know, this is secondary market.
This isn't the face value of the ticket, which I
don't know what they are, but I mean, I'm I

(28:25):
feel pretty confident that if you look at the Philadelphia Eagles,
current price of the ticket, five hundred and thirty eight bucks,
very popular team. I don't know what the face value is,
but I'm pretty darn sure it's not five hundred and
thirty eight bucks or anywhere close. Let's see what Tim's
got this morning. Tim, thanks for calling. A Happy Monday
to you.

Speaker 9 (28:42):
Happy Monday to you, Brian, thank you.

Speaker 10 (28:44):
Hey.

Speaker 9 (28:46):
I've got a little info on that truck driver sing
oh yeah. Back in twenty nineteen in Yale County, Arkansas,
he drove across a bridge that was rated at six
tons with his eighty or forty ton truck eighty thousand pounds,

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and needless to say, he collapsed a an eighty eight
year old bridge there in Yale County, Arkansas and then
also been a pattern observer of gas prices gas is
uh when he gets down to about.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
Two seventy five a gallon.

Speaker 9 (29:32):
Last month or so two months, it's been jumping up
to three twenty nine, except for this past weekend when
it jumped up to three forty nine. And just wondering
if anybody knows why it keeps doing that, you know,
when he gets out of that two seventy five point
and then it jumps back up, And just wondering if

(29:53):
anybody knows out there.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
I personally don't know, Tim, So your question out to
the listening audience. Generally, if someone has the answer to
that question, feel free to call in. I've always viewed
the price of gasoline someone like the peace of God.
It passes all human understanding. Tim, have a great day, man,
Thanks for calling and for listening to the program. It's
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Speaker 4 (31:27):
Fifty On a Monday, fifty five Guarsini talk station sacking
Stupid I Hop International House of pancakes. A waitress who
worked for I Hops sexually harassed a female customer, rubbing

(31:49):
the fifty one year old customers woman's back, breast and
arms while sitting next to her in the restaurant booth.
Why are you doing that? Let's learn together. Investcare's alleged
that Ali May Wright, she is a twenty six year
old server at a Florida ihop, waiting on a patron
when she began quote to call the victim a sexy

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and this is a word I never utter beyond the FCC,
not even in my private life sea word. I'll let
you use your own imagination sexy sea word, and gave
her a milkshape that wasn't ordered. Cop said that Wright
would return to the table and continue to call her
a sexy sea word. Then she sat down next to

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the victim, began to rub the victim on the back,
arm and outside of her right breast, and was seen
resting her head on the victim's shoulder. This is all
in the arrest AFFI David. The victim did not know
the defendant and did not give her permission to touch her,
according to the police. Incident yeah was recorded on I
Hoop security cameras, They're everywhere right. Arrested for battery, booked

(32:58):
into the county jail, mistered mean charge. Released on a
two hundred and fifty dollars buy after spending a night
in custody. Judge ordered the woman to have no contact
with the victim. Rest affidavid indicates the cops detected an
indication of alcohol influence. There's your answer, Joe. Current employment

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status not known. Foreign driver with an amazingly high high
alcohol content, one so high it would kill most people,
got on the German autubin and ended up going one
hundred and thirty seven miles per hour traveling on the
A sixty seven in southern Hasse. Was so drunk that

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most medical literature indicates that he should be dead or
in a coma. One witness followed the car called the
police after noticing the man's zigzagging between lanes and driving
an eerrotic manner. Officers stopped the car, which had foreign
license plates foreign to Germany anyway, checked both occupants of
the vehicle. Passenger of the vehicle had actually a higher

(34:01):
blood alcohol level than the driver as to the driver.
A breathalyzer test carried out on the spot shot a
blood alcohol level of four point one six as far
as the passenger. No blood alcohol level for the passenger,
because the device, they say, switches off when the blood
alcohol content is above five. Driver's license immediately confiscated. The

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fact that there were no injuries or deaths was likely
due to mere coincidence. According to the German media outlet, well,
you can't drive with the blood alcohol content above point
five if you're blowing point one point one. That is
considered a criminal defense and as described in German law,

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an absolute inability to drive if you're one point one
or over a core. To the German Automobile Club, the
blood alcohol level of above four poses in a qu
ute risk to life. Important protective reflexes are lost. Those
affected fall into a coma and can suffer shock with
progressive circulatory failure. Even complete respiratory and cardiac arrest. Blood

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alcohol concentration more than five almost always leads to death,
it says, so nobody injured and nobody died. Contemplate this
one described as drunk and angry over a neighbor parking
in her yard or near her yard. Forty eight year

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old Mauritia Morgan covered the vehicle that she was bothered
by with toilet paper while dressed in a hot dog
costume at four pm. Florida Woman of course busted a
Monday afternoon in charge with disorderly conduct and resisting arress.
Cops observed that Morgan was intoxicated and refused to cooperate

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in the investigation. Today Amen Brother A following morning Tuesday,
she pleaded no contest and misdemeanor counts. A judge guilty
of the charges find five hundred and fifty bucks. Fortunately
doesn't answer the question. Court documents and police records have
no explanation for why Morgan was dressed in a hot

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dog costume. It's Florida, That's why do we need to
look beyond that?

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Six oh six. Brian Thomas here, wishing everyone a very
happy Monday. Throw out an early invitational listener lines. We're
moving it to the tenth and it's the second Wednesday
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Pub and Grill. Coming up with the fifty five Casse
Morning Show. It's Monday. That means Christopher Smithman's and I'm
on at seven to twenty former Vice Mayor of the
City of Cincinnati with a smith event Monday Monday with
Brian James coming to NATO five. Fast forwarding two hours
Powell opening the door of the rate cuts. Will the
market crash? Hate that being in the list of things
or is it just pullbacks? John Zinzer, behind the Save

(37:34):
hyde Park Square initiative, had a lot of help on
that one. Of course, Hyde Park would like to determine
its own future in destined when it comes to zoning
the City of Cincinnati, Maria have to have Parwell saying
no sucks to be you. We aren't going to listen
to you, hyde Park. We're doing what we want, so
we'll find out what is going on in Hyde Park.
I know, the developers at least suggested they were willing
to make some concessions on the height of the hotel

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or the building that most of the folks were protesting.
They're not against development in Hyde Park from everything I understand,
and John delve into that at a thirty. It's just
the design is just completely ruined us the neighborhood. Ah,
another reason to consider voting in a different direction of November,
stating the obvious. So that's up coming up five on
three seven eight hundred eighty two to three Talk found

(38:18):
five fifty on eight C and phones. It's what Bobby's
got this morning. Bobby, welcome back to the Morning Show.
Happy Monday, Happy.

Speaker 12 (38:24):
Monday to you, my brother. I got some good news
and I got some sad news for the day, but
I hope they all balance each other out. We lost
one of our House of Representatives, and it's a sad
day for the Congress, is the way I look at it.
Representative Al Green down in Texas. You know, the one

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that sits up front screaming all the time.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
You got the cane Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yes.

Speaker 12 (38:50):
In the redistrict down there. He lost his seat. So
I'm sure it's just a sad day for Texas.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Gets your tongue out of here, say Bobby.

Speaker 12 (39:02):
Yes, thank you. And the next one is, you know,
we're worried about all this upcoming violence in Cincinnati, which
we know it's all common. You know, after the you know,
the little gets, you know they had them the weekend,
the family reunion, he kind of settled down, but it's
picking back up. And I got one word that could
solve the whole thing. And it's real easy for the

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administrators and everybody down there in Cincinnati. Just one word, resign.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
It'll correct the problem.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
That's it. People who strive for power and ultimately obtain
some measure of power, highly unlikely individuals to walk away
from it voluntarily. Bobby, So we have elections questions, Well,
real the residence of the city wake up and decide
that the path they've been on now for the past
forty plus years hasn't served them well.

Speaker 12 (39:51):
Well, one nice thing, mister Sanza with the Civil Rights Division.
He'll be visiting Cincinnati real soon.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Yes, I'm certain he will. And love Orlando sons. I
have big hopes for Orlando down the road. Here. Appreciate
the commentary, Bobby. As always, I hope you have a
great day. My friend six nine and fifty five cares
to the talk station. I was talking earlier about the FOP,
you know, going after Iris Raleigh and asking and demanding
that the City of Cincinnati terminate their or contract with

(40:20):
the city. She is a profound, outspoken anti police advocate,
that's what she's all about. Has a lot of power
and sway and influencing the community generally speaking, and that's
the balancing act. I was arguing in the last hour
that I have to have Pervall and the city manager
have to make ge do we alienate the folks that
are loyal to the Iris rallys out or to Iris Raleigh,
the folks that might vote for us if we keep

(40:41):
her in place, or do we risk losing those voters
by firing Iris Rawley. Giving her outspoken anti police sentiment
and the fact that she interfered with police officers. It's
a balancing act. It's theirs. They're stuck with it. And
I thought there was a parallel to be drawn on that.
There's an interesting third way, which is this left wing

(41:01):
organization described he's run by a Democrat, And you know
third way is they comment on left wing things. They
issued a one described it as a communicate to the
Democrats about the language they use the intent of this
language is to include, broad and emphasize, except and embrace

(41:23):
the effect of this language just to sound like extreme, divisive, elitist,
ophigatory ovagas story and enforcers of wokeness talking about the
language left wing used, language you would only hear from
some I supposed feminist college professor, some left winger. Lots
of them out there. Vice president of JD Evans speaking

(41:47):
with Laura Ingram, I mean, look, the autopsy for the Democrats,
some free political advice from the President of the United
States is stops sounding like crazy people. Of course, you
might expect that from JD Evans, but you don't expect
it from a left wing organization like Third Way. They
have a long and specific list they published of words
that they're telling Democrats don't use because it's off putting

(42:08):
to regular folks. Quote, at this moment, we are putting
a spotlight on the language we use that puts a
wall between us in everyday people of all races, religion,
and ethnicities. These are words that people simply do not say,
yet they hear them from Democrats. H third Way Senior

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Vice President Lena Erickson, speaking of Politico, said three potential
potential twenty twenty eight Democratic presidential candidates are great at
communications generally speaking. Andy Bisheer, she cited, talked about Transportation
Secretary Street Street Pete, butda judge who may be a
good public speak or speakers, but he's an idiot. And

(42:51):
somebody named Senator Reuben Galego from Arizona. Anyway, She pointed
out Basher recently talking about the fact that are you
ready justice involved individuals? Now for you and I, that's
a criminal, that's someone who's been arrested, in charge with
a crime. But nobody in the world refers to those
folks as justice involved individuals. They wouldn't even call themselves.

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That third Way pointed out, So over the years, we've conducted,
red analyzed hours upon hours of focus groups, and we
have yet to hear a voter volunteer any of the
phrases below except as a form of derision or parody
of Democrats. And yet that's hitting the ball out of

(43:34):
the park. They broke it down the several categories therapy speak, seminar,
room language, organizer, jargon, gender oriented, correctness, racial constructs, and
crime talk do not use the following words, and so

(43:54):
far as therapy speak the words privilege environmental violent violence
as in environmental violence, I don't even know what that is.
I don't know what most of these are, quite frankly, dialoguing,
other ring, triggering, microaggression, progressive stack, never that one's centering,

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safe space, holding space, and body shaming. And you know,
insofar as the idea that these words are in phrases
are used in derision or parody, that's something that you know,
I have embraced and think about it in your day
to day activities. If you're a left winger, if you're

(44:37):
in that group, do you use stuff like this when
you talk amongst yourselves? When you're interacting with someone, say,
who's an independent, maybe open minded about who they're going
to vote for? Do they use this kind of language?
Probably not category seminar language. Third Way said, these words
tell people, quote, I'm smarter and more concerned about important

(44:59):
issues than you. It's a little belitwing, subverting norms, system
of oppression, critical theory, cultural appropriation. I hate that one. Postmodernism.
Here's a new one. Overton window heuristic and existential threat

(45:20):
in the context of climate, the planet, democracy, and the
economy organizer jargon, which third Way says these words say
we are beholding to groups, not individuals like teachers' unions.
Here we are radical transparency, small deed democracy, barriers to

(45:40):
participation stakeholders, the unhoused i e. Homeless, food insecurity, housing insecurity,
and person who immigrated. Gender orientation correctness the category which

(46:00):
third Way says jargon which tells normal, regular, everyday folks,
your views on traditional genders and gender roles are at
best quaint. Birthing person slash inseminated person, pregnant people. These
are the ones that avoid identifying a particular person as

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a man or woman obviously, chest feeding, cisgender dead naming, heteronormative, patriarchy,
and all encompassing. Don't use LGBTQIA plus because the vast
majority of us kind of lose track and our eyes
glaze over after you get done with a b avoid

(46:48):
racial constructs words that in According to the Third Way,
these words signal that talking about race is even more
of a minefield, with the danger of being called a
racist if you fail to use the latest quote unquote
correct terminology, which includes words you should not use according
to third Way latinx Bipock alley ship, intersectionality and minoritized communities.

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Don't they sound like made up words? And finally, crime
talk third wave warning that the terms the following terms
tell regularly everyday folks, the criminal is the victim, the
victim is an afterthought. And those words include justice involved
would be like as injustice involved individual. Going back to
Governor Bisher's commentscarceration, incarcerated people, and involuntary confinement. Most people

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don't voluntarily choose to go to jail. Now, as far
as this Irish royally choice and this is the kind
of thing you have to you have to sort of
look at how do these two can the use of
that language or according to a third way, to stop
using the language. Over at bright Bart, John Nolty observes
the following I thought it was rather brilliant. Well, if
they're not going to use this language, what will they

(48:11):
say instead? For example, he writes, if they don't say
birthing person or pregnant people, what term will they use?
If they stop saying incarcerated people or justice involved? What
words do they use? How do you get around LGBTQIA
and cisgender and bipoc. There are two ways. One come
up with an equally stupid term, or two talk like

(48:31):
a normal person, which will and here's the part of
the problem for the Democrats, anyway, alienate your base of
purple haired boomer Heridians who purchase a boxed wine at costco.
Very funny way of putting at John Nolty. But see,
there is that huge contingent of far left. He's in
the Democrat Party, which would be angry if you stop

(48:55):
using these weird, made up words and start referring to
like well pregnant women as opposed to birthing persons. Democrats
are stuck with these radicals, with these unforgiving fascists who
demand loyalty tests one hundred percent fealty. Democrats have painted
themselves into a corner, with any attempt to moderate resulting

(49:16):
in a brutal backlash from the wealthiest and most intolerant
part of their base. There you go, that's the risk.
You did something crazy, You went full off rail hardcore left.
You incorporated all of this sort of I don't know sociology,
made up words speak in your language. People don't know
what you're talking about.

Speaker 10 (49:36):
It.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
Of course flies in the face of normal, every day,
traditional mindset, mindset that exists across political parties. But because
they're so entrenched in so hardcore, even if they only
represent a segment of the Democratic Party, the concern is
among these elected officials, Oh my god, if I start

(49:56):
sounding normal in an effort to bring over, say independence
or more moderate Democrats, I'm gonna alienate that far left wing.
They're gonna try to primary or they're gonna come out loud,
screaming and yelling. They have no problem protesting centrists within
their own party, So good luck with it. I got
my popcorn out. I'm watching the whole thing collapse in
front of my very eyes, and it puts a big

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one of Russia's most decorative battlefield heroes now well alleged
to be the head of a brazen frauds game involving
soldiers shooting themselves in order to collect combat injury payouts.

(51:39):
According to the investigators, Lieutenant Constantine Frolov, nicknamed the executioner
for his sniper skills. Well apparently lied about what got
him the executioner and some some major acknowledgements for the
military helped his troops steal two point five million dollars
in a military frauds game. This is in the Russian

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newspaper Commerce Sunt Also former Brigadier Commander R. Tem Garodalov.
I know you're keeping tracking home with these names, anyway,
They say at least thirty five officers in Russia's elite unit,
the eighty third Separate Guards are As Salt Brigade, sat
out of combat and collected about forty thousand dollars each.
Fro Lov Perry revered. They claim he was a great guy,

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boasting of surviving five minor and two serious wounds, ledg
braverly earned him four Orders of Courage. That's apparently one
of Russia's highest honors, along with two additional medals of
our investigators now alleging the wounds were stage and he
ultimately admitted that he ordered his soldiers to shoot him
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blow whistle blower alerted authorities last summer about this. He
was arrested last June. Apparently he reportedly kept three captured pistols,
machine gun and magazines with ammunition. So he's been accused
of bribery and illegal trafficking and weapons and ammunitions. Can
you imagine shoot me? We were hearing stories about folks

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like in Vietnam shooting themselves in the foot in order
to get out of duty. So well, I suppose maybe
it's easier to have somebody shoot you than actually pull
the trigger. Six twenty six if I have KRSD talk station,
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Let's start with the John Houston now Shared Brown race
Emerson College. I did the first poll on this race.
I have John Houston leading by six percentage points, forty

(54:49):
four percent for Sharon Brown, fifty percent for John Houston.
Cord to Emerson. Houston has a sixteen point lead among
mail voters and voters without a college degree, fourteen point
lead among vot voters over the age of forty, Brown
as a thirteen point lead among voters under forty, to
three point lead among women voters, and an eight point

(55:09):
lead among independence That's the one that's got me scratching
my head anyhow, Ramaswami Vivek Ramaswamy, of course, running for governor,
is leading Democrat Amy Actin and Tim Ryan Cordel Emerson
poll Ramaswamy beating Acting by forty nine to thirty nine
and Ryan by forty nine to forty one, so that's

(55:33):
to be expected. I'm just kind of scratching my head
over the independence leaning towards shared brown old other local stories.
Three people shot within blocks on one another outside of
Roselawn Bars, this off riding road August twenty second into
the morning. The following morning, a twenty two year old

(55:53):
woman and a twenty eight year old man injured in
a shooting near the Miami Hookah and Bar and Grill
or Hukah Grill. Since I Police said both people were
brought the UC Medical Center with non life threatening injuries,
and later that night, August twenty third into the next morning,
a forty year old man was shot by an unknown
person near Vibez Hookah Bar and Lounge. You noticing a

(56:17):
trend here a man taking a UC Medical Center with
what they describe as serious injuries. No idea what led
up to the shootings, and there's no information on the
suspects yet. Enquire asked the police department for information, don't
have any. Y at City data shows at least twenty
four people have been shot in the four blocks between
seventy five hundred Renting Road and seventy eight hundred Redding

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Road since twenty twenty three. Nearly all the shootings, they say,
occurred to night time hours, between midnight and four am.
Four shootings this year in that part of Reting Road,
all of which not fatal, although I don't know that
that really matters. It's a question of like inches sometime
on whether you have a shot that's fatal or not. Roselin.

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They say shootings are down compared to this time last year.
In twenty twenty five, there have been eight shooting so
far won fatal. By this time in twenty twenty four,
there were fifteen. Going in the right direction over Newport, Kentucky,
man was shot late Friday night, cording to New Park
Police Department or CARD, around almost ten thirty pm near

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the intersection at tenth in Puttnam unidentified man shot in
the legs while walking with another individual. The man suffered
non life threatening injuries taken to the hospital. Neither the
victim nor the person he was with were able to
identify a suspect. Police said, based on current information, they
believe the shooting was an isolated incident since no other

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injuries were reported. Newport Police said they encourage anybody with
information to get in touch with Detective is about the
ebe call him up. Eight five nine two sixty one
eighty four seventy seven. That's the tip line for the
new Part Police eight five nine two six one eighty
four seventy seven. So I feel free to drop it time.
And a guy jumped off the Purple People Bridge August

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twenty third, since I Fire Department release said that multiple
agencies were dispatched to the bridge about eleven o'clock in
the morning after a person was reported to have jumped
in the river. They confirmed from multiple people that a
man had in fact jump, but they couldn't find anyone
After forty minutes of searching the area. The search was
turned over to the Boone County Water Rescue and Hamilton

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very happy Monday to you. Got on a little bit
of a theme this morning talking about how the left
is painted themselves into a corner with all these policies,
and you're dealing with the Iris Raleigh system situation with
the City Cincinnati. You have an absolute anti police advocate
on the City of Cincinnati payroll while we are struggling

(01:01:06):
with crime issues in the City of Cincinnati. A lot
of people are really concerned about that. A lot of
people want law enforcement. A lot of people want a
full contingency of police officers, and I would think they'll
be the vast majority of folks in any given neighborhood.
Do you want it to be safe or do you
want it to be dangerous? What have we learned from
leftists attitudes toward police departments? Right, fewer police, defund the police,

(01:01:27):
the place goes to hell in a handbasket. See Los Angeles,
see Chicago, see Portland or Seattle crime infested hell holes
by adopting this sort of anti police philosophy. And in
parallel on that, if you don't force children to stay

(01:01:51):
up with their learning, and you give them a's and
grade inflate and you don't give them f's for not
doing work. Guess what happens? They get dumb. Doesn't that
seem to be a logical conclusions like get rid of police,
more crime, get rid of having higher expectations for students

(01:02:13):
learning in a learning environment, they get dumb. That seems
to me to be a logical conclusion. Saw this op
ed piece what teachers think of equitable grading. There's that
word again. Fifty K through twelve public teachers is a
new survey say the school or district has adopted at

(01:02:35):
least one quote unquote equitable grading policies such as no
zeros for missed assignments, no penalties for turning in late work,
unlimited retake on tests, general rights tolerating poor or unfinished homework,
and the name of equity gained attraction during COVID years.
It's more prevalent in majority minority schools. According to the

(01:02:57):
survey of nearly one thousand K through twelve public to
public teachers that was published last Wednesday by the Fordham Institute,
about fifty eight percent of teachers in those schools reported
the use of at least one equitable policy. Good news
is that teachers hate it. Eighty one of the thousand.
Eighty one percent of the thousand said in No zero's

(01:03:18):
policy is, in their words, harmful to academic engagement. Engagement,
including eighty percent of teachers of color. This isn't a
race thing. This is an idea of well equity equals
terrible grades. Some of the questions from the survey teachers
are what they described as unsparing. Quote being given a
fifty percent for doing nothing seems to enable laziness, said

(01:03:44):
one teacher. Ridiculous another quote insulting to the students who work,
concluded one. And then finally, most teachers can't stand the
gifty fifty majority of teachers at fifty six percent set
of policy. See if no late penalties is harmful compared
with twenty three percent who like it. Regarding letting students

(01:04:06):
retake tests, if the teachers were divided, with forty one
percent supporting the retake and thirty seven percent against. Generally speaking,
those seventy one percent agreed grading policies should set high
expectations for everyone, with only twenty nine percent approving of
reforms to be fairer to disadvantage students, there's your equity.

(01:04:28):
You're described as disadvantage for some reason ergo you should
get a higher grade. Does that make any sense? One
teacher said, Equity grading is not leveling the playing field,
is simply lowering standards so that school districts look like
they're meeting kids where they are, where in fact, they're
hiding their failures behind equitable policies. In other worried a

(01:04:52):
grades are passed out like Halloween candy. Whether as students
learned anything is nearly irrelevant. Good grades keep everybody happy
until ill prepared students graduate. Separate form and report from
last year argue that equitable grading makes it hard for
parents to know whether their children are struggling and might
need help. If college admissions officers can't rely on high

(01:05:15):
school GPAs, they turn to more subjective measures like extracurricular activities,
and that's well, at least in the conclusion of the journal,
less equitable for equitable for talented kids who can't spend
a fortune on travel sports. The truth of student learning
deficiencies is evident from declining scores on standardized tests, including
the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the ACT Exam.

(01:05:39):
Now they acknowledge COVID lockdowns probably contributed to this, but
lowering of expectations in the name of equity before the
pandemic great inflation, as it's called, let schools evade accountability
while robbing students of the rewards of doing homework and
actually learning. Teachers know it will principles and superintendents listen.
Probably not. There's the conclusion, you know, when you relax

(01:06:03):
something like that, like policing, things get worse. Who among
us wouldn't expect children's grades to go down if you
don't have any expectations that they're going to have to
learn something? And so unfair. I weep for the children
who've been victims of grade inflation. Maybe children who passed

(01:06:27):
on the margins. Maybe we're issued ds and we're given
a passing grade, and even a D under those circumstances,
like fifty percent is a D. Those children move on
to the next grade. Do you think they're equipped at
all to manage the material in the next grade if
they haven't demonstrated a mastery of the material in the
grade that they're being passed out of, of course not.

(01:06:50):
In years of accumulating this type of thing, it gets
worse and worse and worse. The burden of trying to
learn the next highest grade level becomes worse, so much
so that kids either drop out of school or they
take a stab at college because they're GPA suggests that
they're able to manage college level materials, so they go
into debt and end up dropping out of college because,

(01:07:11):
get right, they can't handle the weight, the expectations that
you have already established, the wall, the building blocks, the
foundation that you need to move on to the next
highest or the next higher level of learning material another
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first mark Hold on Jim, thanks for calling this morning.

Speaker 10 (01:08:50):
Good morning, Brian back in. There's been a few years
since I've been on the school board. But the State
of Ohios when they're when they're grading the schools at
one point in time, and I don't think it's kind
any better. The school was great and proficient if seventy
percent of the students got better than thirty eight percent
on their standardized test. Seeff was even worse. We're better

(01:09:17):
on the test. They were great and proficient, so.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
They had incentive to pass the child or great inflate
so they would pass the the the the arbitrary assigned number.

Speaker 10 (01:09:29):
That's right. Great, So all our school looks great? Yeh
got you know? Yeah, No, I don't. They weren't war
than anything.

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
I'm shocked, shocked if find gambling going on here? Yes,
and who among us wouldn't expect that to happen. I
mean seriously, before this process went into place, if you
just said, wait a second, if we tell them that
they're going to be judge proficient if seventy percent of
their students pass, does anybody here think that there's going
to be great inflation? Anyone? Anyone, anyone who wouldn't think

(01:09:58):
that would happen. Funding and all this kind of stuff
is in jeopardy. Yes, we're gonna go ahead and give
Johnny a D when he deserves an F because well
he didn't hand in the work mark. Welcome to the program.
Thanks for calling this morning. Hey, good morning, Brad.

Speaker 10 (01:10:14):
Hey.

Speaker 14 (01:10:14):
Uh yeah, I got two teachers or no, two sisters
that are teachers, one of Florida's one in Colorado, and uh,
this stuff drives them crazy. Oh good, They just they
don't like it. But uh, when I was growing up
and in third grade, I had an issue with math
and I could have moved on to the fourth grade,
but my parents they helped me back. I could have

(01:10:37):
went on, but they're like no, they the advice to
the school and everything like, let's holding back for another year,
which is probably the best thing for me, you know.
But that's all I had to say about that. And
my other thing I wanted to.

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
Do quickly Mark Mark. The people would reject that idea. Oh,
you can't hold little Johnny or in your case, Mark back,
because Mark will feel bad, It will hurt his feeling.
His friends will be moving forward and he'll be stuck
in the same grade. My response is, you're not going
to do Mark any benefit by passing them along if
you can't manage math in whatever grade level, because it's

(01:11:10):
going to be harder math in the next grade level,
and he's setting himself up for failure. So do you
want to fail along the minds, hearts and minds of
your peers, like, oh you got held back and then
ultimately master mathematics, or do you want to be well
moved ahead and fall behind in math only to set
yourself up for absolute disaster and math down the road.
So I think your parents did the right thing. Do

(01:11:30):
you feel badly that they held you back?

Speaker 10 (01:11:32):
Mark?

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
A little bit?

Speaker 10 (01:11:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:11:35):
I saw my friends move forward, but the you know,
I made new friends and I was still friends.

Speaker 4 (01:11:42):
With my old friends.

Speaker 14 (01:11:43):
They were just a great ahead of me.

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
So you go, Yeah, and they were good friends because
they stayed your friends and they didn't hold being hell
hold being held back against you. I'm not your friend
to you. Mark.

Speaker 14 (01:11:56):
Well, the funny thing is is most of my career
has been.

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
Involved with math.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
Oh that's a right, Yeah, okay, So I believe your
parents must have done you a service. Right you had
another thought, look for part company?

Speaker 14 (01:12:09):
Well, yeah, we went down to the Veterans Creation Day
sat and that you like the term, you know, I
want to make it one day to your listener launch
but working and it's tough, I understand. But you use
the term fellowship and that's what I felt down there
talking with the vetitors, sharing stories, a lot of sponsors

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down there with good information. Ran it to Alisha Reese,
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actually ran into the woman I can't remember her name

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the vcast program with the UH. I don't know if
she was on with you or she was ang with
Gary Jeff Walker, but they have that where they give
find veterans pets and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
Oh okay, I can't remember. Yeah, I don't think she
was on my program. But that's great, And I'm glad
you went, And I'm glad you mentioned how great an
event it was. You know that told the German word
gi mutually kite. You know you feel the love and
the fellowship, and I'm glad you're able to share the
experience that you had. And I'll encourage my listeners to
show up at those events as they come up, because
we always talk about them in the morning show. So
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Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
Seven oh six on a Monday, Bryan Thomas looking forward
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from now, Powell thinking about a rate cut. That's good.
I guess subject number two question will the market crash
and finally or is it just pullbacks? And then at
a thirty Johnson's or save Hyde Park Square. He was
behind the effort. I mean he acknology. He had a
whole lot of help out there with the signature gathering.
It's going to be on the ballot this November. Let

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Hyde Park choose its own destiny. That's the bottom line,
and that we'll get the latest of what's going on there,
whether the developers, the well connected developers. I might add,
we'll make any concessions. I know they offered some concessions.
Will it satisfy the residents behind park and will put
a nail on the coffin of the way that zoning
is currently allowed thanks to the City of Cincinnati. A

(01:15:11):
mayor A have to have provol talk to the folks
at Bond Hill about that as well. All right, talking
about some of the things that got Democrats back tonto
a corner this morning, of course law enforcement, one of
them on the heels of the demands by the Ohio
Fraternal Order or Police for the city to dump Iris
Rawling in that contract they have with her, because she's
an outspoken critic of law enforcement. It's the defund the

(01:15:33):
police idea that has not worked out well. Okay. They
Democrats own that every city that's gotten terrible and fallen
apart because the crime increases. That is the idea behind
the woke ideology. We don't want people to have a record.
We don't need to prosecute young people. We don't need
to have bonds, We don't need to have tough sentencing. Okay,

(01:15:56):
At my point, if you go soft on crime, you
get a lot more crime. It has just proven itself
of the last five, six, seven years. Now people are
pushing back in the different direction, the opposite direction. We
need more police. Look at Portland, look at Seattle, look
at Los Angeles, Chicago, look how about here in downtown Cincinnati.
So it's not a popular idea at least, I would

(01:16:17):
say mentioned in the context of the education system, This
whole idea equity and letting children pass in when they
haven't demonstrated the proper knowledge level for any given grade,
or just handing out grades like candy, Oh, get an AGG,
get an egg, get an A. You get an A,
you automatically qualify, you don't fail if you get a

(01:16:37):
fifty percent or low. That ruins education. Who owns that?
The left? And then pivoting over to climate policy. Now
there was recently. I mean, there's a whole bunch of
articles out there. You don't have to go very far
to find them. The history of this whole climate change
movement started out in the seventies. There was a growing
concern over an ice age. Oh my god, pollution's gonna

(01:16:59):
you know, for the block the sunlight, we're going to freeze.
Temperatures had been dropping, and so they all grabbed around
the idea that we're going to have the next ice
age and we need to do something about it. Well,
that didn't happen. Temperatures started warming up. So the pivot
came to global warming. The al Gore years. And if

(01:17:20):
you listen to al Gore and you believe what he
said back when he said it around two thousand and eight,
two thousand and nine time frame, there would be no
polar ice caps. Ten years ago twenty thirteen is when
he predicted it had been completely melted. We are all
going to die. Polar ice caps melt, the sea level
is going to rise. Oh my god, we're all going
to die. And so we bought into that nonsense. He
made millions and millions of dollars over the concept. Well

(01:17:43):
that didn't work out. People realized and looked at climate
over the years, and the climate wasn't exactly warming. Temperatures
now about what they're lower than they were, say in
the nineteen hundreds, we weren't burning as much carbon and
fossil fuel, So what did they pivot over to climate
change which was more convenient for the global warming alarmist.

(01:18:06):
So the climate change alarmists now since they changed the terminology,
because any abnormal or if you perceive it to be
abnormal weather event, any big weather event, they're gonna blame
on climate change. You know, it's been going on forever,
and anytime a hurricane pops up, the words climate change
will be in the reporting about it. Anything. But the

(01:18:27):
polar ice caps did not melt. They've actually gotten bigger.
We have more CO two now then before we started
spending trillions of dollars. Look at wreck the European economy.
Germany's in a recession thanks to with this whole idea
of chasing their tail over zero carbon emissions. So after
all this effort, there's more carbon dioxide in the world,
and the climate really hasn't changed other than what we

(01:18:49):
see as historical norms. Yes, the climate gets warmer and
cooler based upon a whole variety of things including ocean currents,
sun rays, and of course the manacia two in the air.
Cannot be really change. If you're fighting the uphill battle,
you're fighting against China. Of course, in India, who belch

(01:19:09):
out more and more every single year. The amount of
electricity consumption keeps going up. Demand has not waned at all,
so you're going to continue on this trend. You have
volcanoes and wildfires which contribute tons of follutants into the atmosphere,
and yet they shove regulations down our throat in the

(01:19:32):
name of trying to reduce our carbon dioxide output. So
another thing the left owns it isn't really popular with
the vast majority of people. Federal appliance regulations, your stingy
shower head, your energy efficient light bulb, your toilet that
doesn't flush unless you use it you flush more than twice.
How to beat the high cost of cooling? Journals pointing
out Hey Trump go after the overregulation of residential central

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air conditioners, Energy Department, Enviotomental Protection and right heard over
air conditioners. Energy Department's latest efficiency standards for these systems
took effect in twenty twenty three and well make it
far less affordable for the average person to get an
air conditioning system. Biden EPA issued a rule requiring that
systems manufactured after January first of this year use refrigerants

(01:20:18):
that meet their new climate change requirements. It's increased the
cost of an AC system by fifteen hundred dollars on average,
according to Martin Hoover, who's the president of Empire Heating
and Cooling in Atlanta. He said the higher price due
to both increased equipment prices, systems had to be redesigned
for the new refrigerants, higher labor costs since these refrigerants

(01:20:40):
are more flammable and require additional precautions during installation, probably certifications,
and worse, the EPA compliant green refrigerant it's called R
four point fifty four B is in short supply, so
loss of supply demandning It's gone up substantially. These and

(01:21:01):
other regulations, combined with non regulatory factors like higher material
costs and rising wages, dramatically increasing the cost of buying
a new system. Are you ready, homeowner replacing a fifteen
year old system that probably costs about five thousand dollars
when installed. You're now looking, according to Hoover with Empire,
between thirteen thousand and fourteen thousand dollars. Anoy're considering a

(01:21:29):
rollback of this. Hopefully they will. It's going to be difficult.
They point out, underlying statutory provisions generally preclude a new
efficiency regulations that are less stringent than the one it replaces.
Now that being said, that's you know, Washington complications. But
the idea that we constantly cut our throat in the

(01:21:50):
name of pursuing an objective that is impossible to obtain.
This zero CO two emissions is costing us all a
blanking fortune. And if you want to see, I mean
one of the things that's eroding the middle class buying power.
Welcome to this the concept itself. It makes everything more expensive,

(01:22:11):
It makes everything less efficient and less reliable. Considering brownouts
are a thing now why because of the push, of course,
to go for completely renewable energy sources solar panels and
windmills that don't work when the sun is enshining and
the wind's not blowing, and that happens a lot, the
sporadic interruptions. There's no reliable source of energy to back

(01:22:34):
that up. So our lives become more miserable just because
of power interruption. And most notably, I have to add
those energy generations, the windmills and the solar panels cost
a lot more and require government subsidies to be even
affordable in the first place. I'd say this is something

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Seven nineteen fifty five car City Talk Station. Thank god
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It's always a pleasure having you on the show.

Speaker 6 (01:24:29):
Thank you Brian so much. There is something in my
crawl this morning, and it's regarding this governor's race in Virginia.
And I know probably your your many of your listening
audience might not know about this because a lot of
the people in mainstream media weren't covering it. But I

(01:24:49):
just want to spend a little time talking about it.
So there is a woman of color who is running
for governor in Virginia and her name is Winsome Sears.
She is a person that served in the Marines. She
is from Jamaica. She's obviously currently the lieutenant governor. She's

(01:25:10):
running for governor. She was the first woman, first woman
of color, first woman and woman of color serving that
capacity in Virginia. So she's having some type of rally
right in Virginia and there is a white woman who's
holding a sign. Here's what the sign says at her rally.

(01:25:30):
If trans can't share your bathroom, then blacks can't share
my water fountain. And she's holding this sign up at
this event when she's speaking. Okay, now, what's so crazy
about it is she's in a Confederate state and this

(01:25:52):
used to be a Confederate state. But this notion that
someone could hold a sign up.

Speaker 10 (01:25:58):
Like that.

Speaker 6 (01:26:00):
And MSNBC, ABC, CNN not even cover it. You have
to go to Fox News to actually see that this
incident occurred. So some of your listening audience might know
exactly what I'm talking about, but it's really hidden. I
want to share with your listening audience and youth. If

(01:26:20):
this were in reverse, if there was somebody holding a
sign up that they believed supported Trump, had a Trump
had on dead maga on it, some version of that,
and they were holding this sign up, right and let's
just say that Al Sharpton is giving a speech, all
heck would be breaking out on those stations. This is

(01:26:43):
the double standard, don't I don't get why humanity is
missed so often by the left when they're saying, hey, listen,
we want women to go up, move up in the
in the political world. We want women of color to
serve in these capacities. She's a Republican, what does that matter?
And someone holds a sign up and this is not

(01:27:05):
you know, you and I talk about it. Look, I
am a supporter of the LGBTQ plus community. This sign
right here is repulsive. It is absolutely repulsive. And I
can't imagine anybody else getting away with holding a sign
up like that other than somebody on the deep left.
I'm just blown away by it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:24):
Well, my conclusion based on what the sign says. They're
equating racism with transgender issues. In other words, if I
refuse to and you know, I know you say you're
a supporter of the LGBTQ plus movement, environment or folks
or whatever, But I don't think that means you believe
that if a man calls himself a woman, that you

(01:27:45):
believe that person to be a woman, Yes, And I also.

Speaker 6 (01:27:49):
Believe that I don't believe that people. And I'm pretty
sure this is where the Lieutenant governor is that we
don't expect men to compete against women exactly where the
soccer rooms are anywhere. Yeah, absolutely, that's my.

Speaker 4 (01:28:04):
Position, right, okay, And so this is this equates the
the the the idea that you must accept men competing
with women if they just declare that they're a woman
is the same thing as hating all people because they're black.
I mean that that that lack of acceptance is the
is the moral equivalent of of of supporting racism.

Speaker 6 (01:28:28):
It's so appalled, it over the top, right like this,
this is what racism really looks like. This is what's
in her heart.

Speaker 10 (01:28:36):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:28:36):
And again, you know, if somebody might listen, listen to
us and say, wow, this was one person. You know,
the left media does one person all the time. One
person said this, and then they generalize it to everybody else.

Speaker 4 (01:28:50):
Well, and the left has been making that moral Yeah,
they have been making that general moral equivalent argument all along.
I mean that the folks, it's like that Dave Chappelle routine.
He went through this from a political standpoint. You know,
gays and lesbians and they're fighting the fight to be accepted,
just accepted. You know, live with a gay lesbian person.
They're next to you anyway, so why fight them, And

(01:29:12):
it's aoka, you know, let them decide with the sexuality is.
But then the whole idea that the transgender argument glombs
onto that fight, which is more analogous to a civil
rights fight with the gay and lesbian community than the
trans community, which requires the population generally speaking, to deny
biological reality. It's beyond the Bible.

Speaker 6 (01:29:35):
My grandmother who lived to be one hundred and five
and she was born in the early nineteen hundreds, who
lived with my mom and dad for over fifty years,
and that means that she was a second mom, meaning
the six of us came home every day to Moseill flowers.

Speaker 10 (01:29:52):
She lived this world.

Speaker 6 (01:29:54):
This was her world, going in the back door, not
being able to use bathrooms white only, black only, or
colored only. If this was her life. My grandfather, their grandparents,
my parents, my own mom and dad lived this life.
So for some this is not like it's like, oh,
I don't see this and it's not connected to your

(01:30:16):
friend I'm saying, someone holding something up like this is
absolutely outrageous, and it's amazing that CNN or MSNBC they
don't even cover it. They act like it didn't happen,
as this person is holding it up and she's dehumanizing
a woman of color. She's from Jamaica, she's incredibly accomplished.

(01:30:37):
She's a veteran, she served our country, she served.

Speaker 10 (01:30:41):
In the Marines.

Speaker 6 (01:30:41):
She's a married woman. She lost her her daughter and
two grandchildren in a car accident. Bottom line is, this
woman has lived a beautiful life of service. She's sixty
one years old, she's running for governor, and this is
what she gets at one of her rallies. I wanted
to just spend time. I know that you know this

(01:31:03):
is in Virginia, but I wanted to highlight it because
I see these inconsistencies and because the mainstream media, Brian,
they just weren't covering it on I'm like, this is crazy,
and I know that if it were on the other foot,
which I'm gonna talk about in the next segment, if
this was if the shoe were on the other foot,
this would be national news everywhere and they would say,

(01:31:25):
look at what's happening. Look at what this Trump supporter
is doing, or look at what this Republican is doing,
or look at what this conservative is doing. Here's the reality.
You and I know the Dixiecrats were the ones that
stood in the doorway for Bussy, stood in the doorway
of civil rights. This is an open room, and for
her to be standing there with that tells you what

(01:31:46):
her heart is. And all the people around her who
saw the side and said nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:31:51):
Well and said nothing, And this is kind of where
I was going to go. If they can, If the
shoe is on the other foot, and it was something
outlandish and outrageous by some person on the Conserva side
or Trump side, then the someone like me who otherwise
might be in that camp would point them out and
say that is not illustrative of what we believe or think.
You don't hear a jack squad about that from the

(01:32:13):
left that they embrace the concept that's on that placard,
that's they own it. That's what's got them in trouble
with you.

Speaker 6 (01:32:21):
There's there's no way, brother, that you would be standing
next to somebody with a sign like that as close
as you and I are without you absolutely calling that
person out Memen. There are hundreds of people around her
holding a sign up saying nothing I know.

Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
Yeah, Well there you go. That's something they own. Let
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to vote for Christopher Smithman. And of course he's always
got an opinion. That's what the smith events all about. Christopher.
Let's move on to the next segment, or springing from
the last segment.

Speaker 6 (01:34:55):
Look, brother, I don't understand what is going on on
in our community at large. I'm talking about American society
right in general. But you know, football season started up,
and I'm not, as you know, a big sports person.
But when I turn on the news and I see
a fight at a high school football game, at the

(01:35:15):
tap game in the middle of the field, and you've
got a brawl down there so bad that the police
have to break it up. You have to stop the game.
So the game can't finish, and nobody knows what they're
going to do going forward. And we had this in
the last season where we even have people be shot

(01:35:36):
at the game or shot outside the games, shots fired
around the stadiums. I'm not talking about this stadium. I'm
saying what is going on in the minds of our culture,
and I'm talking to American culture that we think that
this at any level is okay. And you know I
said it the last season. We're going to have to

(01:35:57):
start having football games early in the morning, right, not
at night.

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:36:02):
We're gonna have to make sure that we monitor those
teams that are getting together that might have the propensity
for this kind of behavior. But I'm sharing with you
it's outrageous because I don't remember any of this when
I was in high school, where teams would get together,
the brawl would be so bad the police would have
to come and the entire football game is shut down.

Speaker 4 (01:36:22):
Brian, never happened. Yep, never happened. You know the one thing,
I think, you know, one man with an opinion. I
know what opinions are like, so don't hold it against me.
But we have two connected things. I think we've had
a couple of decades of absolute desensitization of violence. If
you look at any Hollywood movie or television shows, lots

(01:36:46):
of violence, lots of people overreacting, you know, I mean
immediately gonna gunplay, shoot ups and all that kind of thing.
And when I was growing up, you know, there wasn't
that much. You only had five, nine and twelve and
Channel nineteen by way of selection, but they were very
limited in how much violence was allowed. If you've got
to see violence on the level that we see regularly

(01:37:06):
on regular TV and regular movies, you had to have
it was an R movie. You needed to be seventeen
or older without an adult with you. So I think
that's one thing that you know, lack an absence of
religion in young people's lives. I think that's another component
that's done this. And then, of course the ease with
which all these young people can connect with each other instantaneously,

(01:37:28):
send out a tweet, send out a social media message,
post something on TikTok. Every one in the world sees
it and wants to join in the action. When they
say we're all going to meet at three o'clock in
the morning at Governor Square, you know what I mean
so absolutely, just stream of consciousness observations. My parents were
very strict about what I was able to watch on television.
I mean, if they found anything objectionable by way of

(01:37:49):
violence or maybe adult level conversation, then you don't watch it.
It's out of your element. You're not old enough to
appreciate what they're saying, and we don't want to expose
you to it.

Speaker 6 (01:37:58):
I get that, And I think the culture of video games,
the violence that are in those games, and I also
think a culture where you don't hear those basic things
like yes, ma'am, no, ma'am, Yes, sir, no, sir. It's
this sense of just a loss of a lost discipline

(01:38:19):
and then obviously the erosion of the family and all
of those things combined here. Because there's no way if
I'm playing a sport that I'm on the field and
I'm fighting and I get home and not and live
to see the next day. Meaning that would have been
so disrespectful to the Smitherman name. Meaning I want to

(01:38:39):
protect the name. As my dad would say, the Smitherman
name is on loan to you. I'm loaning it to you,
and I will take it back from you. These are
things that he would say to me if I come
home and I didn't do my homework, or you know,
I was clowned in class, or I got paddled in school,
which did happen, you know, and the reality was Hey,

(01:39:00):
he would literally look at me and say, I want
to remind you that the Smitherman name is on loan.
I will take it back. This sense that, you know,
young people just don't have that level of integrity about
their last name that they would be on a field
at a sporting event fighting. My message to Cincinnati Public,

(01:39:21):
and I said it last last time I was on
the radio, We've got to raise our standards at our
school system. We know that we're gonna have to hold
some of these kids accountable. Now I'm gonna ask the
school system a fight breaks out like this on the field,
are the schools gonna hold those young people, the central people.
Let's say it's five of them, Are they gonna hold

(01:39:43):
them accountable? Are they still on the team? Are they
suspended from the school? You represented TAFF in a terrible way,
You represented the city of Cincinnati in a terrible way.
The key here is where's the accountability? And That's what
I'm gonna be looking for from the Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
Public School says them.

Speaker 6 (01:40:00):
Yeah, the use of the if they just pat him
on the head, If they just pat him on the head,
as hell. No, it's okay, We're going to the next game.
We're going to act like it didn't happen. Nobody learns
a lesson. How anybody involved in that should be absolutely
matter of fact. I would say you're off the team
for the season. I would be that radical if I
were the coach. There's no way you're going to be

(01:40:20):
in a fight that stops the game so that we
can't even have a football game. Why would I want
you on my team if I'm the coach.

Speaker 4 (01:40:27):
How does a black man growing up in the city
of Cincinnati make it to the successful and lofty position
that Christopher Smithman did in spite of the fact that
we live in an inherently racist society. Well, Christopher Smitheman's dad.
He grew up in a privileged environment. Christopher, I love
your dad. I never met him, but the stories you've
told about him remarkable parallels with my parents as well. Christopher,

(01:40:50):
Thank God for both of them. Hold on, we'll bring
it back. So go ahead.

Speaker 6 (01:40:54):
Let me let me just say that so many African
American families are like mine. I know that this notion
is that this is like so broad most African American
families are as I described it. The problem is those
the minority part of the community that are in these
situations where there's white, black or Latino. We've lost accountability

(01:41:16):
in the system. That's why I bring up the tast fight.
Real Taft High School principal coach hold those players accountable
for the fight period.

Speaker 4 (01:41:27):
It's a legitimate question to ask. I suppose that taff
name is on loan to those students who are playing
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Talk station Money Money's Brian James after the top of
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Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
Brother, thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (01:42:47):
Look what's happening in DC is astronomical, right. I don't
want to run away from this subject matter because the
President has done something and what he is showing a
community that is predominantly or fifty percent brown or black,
that I can create an environment that is safe for

(01:43:09):
you to get up. The videos that are coming out
where you see African American men walking down the streets
saying nobody's robbing me, or women in their car saying
their windows are down, I don't have to run through
this red light because somebody's going to car jack me,
or an older woman that comes out of her apartment
saying I haven't been out of my apartment in years,
years just to be able to take a walk. The

(01:43:32):
level of safety that is happening and the stories that
are coming out of DC are absolutely incredible. And so
this notion that you can't create proactive policing keeping an
environment safe and that the super majority of people aren't
law abiding citizens, this is a small segment that right
now in DC is getting under control. People being arrested,

(01:43:54):
guns being taken off of people, People are now coming
out going I can't believe what is happening. I want
to say that this is actually what Black Lives Matter
looks like. This is what Black Lives Matter looks like,
and every urban city right now should be looking at
how do I how do I look at a model

(01:44:15):
like this in order to make sure that we we
quell all of this violence that is happening, Like in Roseline,
we've got two shooting you know, over the over, over
the over the weekend, meaning the shootings in Cincinnati. You
got a mayor, which I sometimes just say, do we
have a mayor? But the reality is I'm saying, you
got shootings that are happening and the only thing that's

(01:44:36):
coming out of city Hall. Listen Paddock Hills, Listen north Side,
Listen Clifton, who has people in the gas like district
doing donuts and blocking the firehouse and all of this
craziness that's going on. Crime is out of control and
right now is expanding from from the downtown into our neighborhoods.

(01:44:57):
If they had gotten it under control this summer, if
they had swelt some of this craziness, we wouldn't be
having the problems that we're having right now. And so
what's scary is you see what's happening in DC and
you're asking yourself, why didn't the mayor and city council
take Governor might do wind up on any of the
suggestions that he said that he would do at the

(01:45:18):
beginning of the summer. Meaning what the media isn't telling
us is that Governor Mike DeWine called the mayor at
the beginning of the summer and said, I am willing
to help you choose from the menu. Why did this
mayor say I'm not going to do anything. I'm not
going to use any of those services. This is when
you have a leader that is disconnected from the people

(01:45:42):
that he's supposed to be keeping safe.

Speaker 4 (01:45:44):
Maybe he consulted with his consultant paid consultant, Iris Rawleigh,
and decided to go a different way. Rather than increasing
the presence of law enforcement and taking the governor up
on his ideas along those lines, he chose the defund
the police, the stay the course a direction because he
didn't want to alienate that a third of the people
who believe that the fewer police equals a better environment.

Speaker 6 (01:46:07):
Irish Rowlie has nothing to do. In my mind. I
understand what you're saying, strong mayor, leader, and he listens to. No,
I understand what you're saying. But who he listens to.
I'm not suggesting that she's not communicating that. But I
have no idea. There are nine members of council. Brother,

(01:46:29):
we've had violence off the chain all summer, right, we
can see what's happening in DC. Why didn't this mayor
or this council go I'm gonna do proactive policing. I'm
gonna make sure that I get out here and make
sure I have a presence. We never would have had
the incident that occurred at the music festival if we

(01:46:51):
had the correct police presence, but we had a mayor
that was out of town traveling around comes back two
weeks later. Have you spoke to the victims. No, I
haven't talked the victims.

Speaker 10 (01:47:00):
Don't.

Speaker 6 (01:47:01):
I don't deal with the victims. You got the president
pro tim saying people were begging for it. I'm saying
there is just such a disconnect Brian Thomas from the reality,
and I'm just saying what I'm watching. I don't know
how this is all gonna pan out, because I can
tell you DC is never gonna want to go back.
Nobody's gonna go through that kind of sense of safety.
Are you following me? Hey man, We're pulling out and

(01:47:22):
we're gonna go back to the way things were. Meaning
you've show people in the community that you can make
them safe. This mayor and council could make us safe
if they wanted to, but their mindset is defund the police.
Reimagine the police putting people in place that don't support
the police. People will get in between an officer doing

(01:47:44):
their job. Communicate to a citizen, by the way, that
that officer did a beautiful job when Miss Irish Rowley
was in between. I mean, you showed you. She showed
her restraint, her de escalation, all of her training that
she got from Cincinnati CPD. She did a beautiful job.
And if she's listening, I want her to know it
because she could have reacted completely differently. From my point

(01:48:06):
to you, Brian Thomas is you have a president right now. Look,
if they're things that this president does, I don't agree with,
they're things that he does I do agree with. That's
what rational people do. I'm saying, we have a president
right now that's engaging in public policy that looks like
black lives do matter. And we've had We've gone through
nine or ten days with no shooting, no murders. What

(01:48:29):
are we gonna do if if the president says, man,
we're pulling out, we're going back the way things are,
I guarantee you it's never gonna happen. And that's why
there's a conversation about what's going to happen in Chicago.
You got you got the vak Ramaswami that's saying, what
are we the vacans saying what are we gonna do?
In Cincinnati, Toledo, in Cleveland. This is waking up governors

(01:48:50):
and mayor saying it actually.

Speaker 10 (01:48:52):
Can be done.

Speaker 6 (01:48:53):
It can be done.

Speaker 10 (01:48:54):
You can quell it.

Speaker 4 (01:48:56):
Yeah, with that question, Yeah, in lack of leadership. Listen
and take a look at New York City. Back when
they had interactive policing, crime was way way way down.
They got rid of that in the wake of the
George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter protests, and of
course crime went through the roof. Don't ride the subway
if you're in New York City. The solution, the solution
seems obvious, Christopher, and I think maybe that's what Donald

(01:49:17):
Trump is trying to accomplish.

Speaker 10 (01:49:18):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:49:18):
I don't think he has the legal authority to send
in the guard to Chicago or any of the other cities.
DC's host of a different color, but I think he
is demonstrating, and he's demonstrating to people of color, you know,
black people, for example, who feel unsafe in their own neighborhood. Look,
look what we can do. We can bring you comfort
and safety by more police being on the streets. Wouldn't

(01:49:40):
that make you feel better? And I think that's a
winning issue for at least the conservative side of the Ledger.
The Democrats are wed to that anti police philosophy, just
like may I have to have.

Speaker 6 (01:49:48):
Purble and I just don't understand what the protest are.
What are you protest? I know crime is dropping. People
are not being murdered. Mothers aren't losing their son, you know,
like miss Wynn at Otr, fifty four year old woman.
I want to keep her out. If miss Ronder her
mother is listening, we have not forgotten your daughter who

(01:50:09):
was shot in the back walking across the street at
the beginning of August, and we have a picture of
the person who shot twenty or thirty times. I spoke
to her mother on the phone and I said there
were twenty shots. She said, no, there were thirty one shots.
So let me say thirty one shots that were fired.
The target wasn't hit, but her innocent daughter was murdered.

(01:50:30):
Can you tell me why there hasn't been one press
conference from any of these so called leaders about those murders.
Why are they so hyper focused on all of this
and they're not focused on the bloodshed in our streets.
It's absolutely shameful.

Speaker 4 (01:50:48):
Non by not talking about it, they claim it doesn't exist.
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Speaker 5 (01:52:21):
Good morning, mister Thomas. Good to talk to you too
as well.

Speaker 4 (01:52:23):
Hope you enjoyed that beautiful weekend.

Speaker 10 (01:52:25):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:52:25):
Jeez weather, it's so weird August.

Speaker 5 (01:52:27):
Isn't it. It's been not disgusting the entire month. It's
been kind of a nice change.

Speaker 4 (01:52:31):
It's a really nice change, how Lee. I loved it,
and just seventy if I could keep it seventy degrees
with that beautiful sunny sky and that light breeze all
year round.

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Man, anyway, the windows open last night and everything. Isn't
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house comfortable, then you won't be spending money in the
HVAC system. Stating the obvious, But let's pivot over to
money issues. How kind of like he's gonna do a
rate cut? Seems to be I don't know, it can't
be set in stone yet. He hasn't announced it, but
all indicators and all the articles of writing about this

(01:53:08):
suggests that an interest rates headed our interest rate cuts
head in our way.

Speaker 5 (01:53:12):
Yeah, that's what we're that's what we're hearing, and the
market is pricing that in too. So this was coming
from the Yeah, this is coming from the speech from
Jackson Hole last week, famous for being a hole in
Wyoming where Paul Volker liked to fish, and that's how
they lured him there. For a meeting in the seventies
and ever since then we've had this big event there.

Speaker 4 (01:53:28):
So just don't try to buy a real estate there, no, no.

Speaker 5 (01:53:31):
No, yeah, exactly when we're not talking about reasonable real estate,
we're talking about interest rate discussions. Although the trout fishing
is probably more interesting discussion there. But in any case,
so Powell speech signaled openness to rate cuts. So this
wasn't any booming, thundering here's what we're going to do.
It was, you know, things that look so bad, so
maybe we might kind of order lower interest rates here
in the very near future. The market is currently taking

(01:53:54):
that as a sign that the September meeting will involve
a rate cut. That's about it. There's about an eighty
one per chance, and you can look at the way
bonds trade and you can see what the probability is
of a rate cut, and that's exactly what's happening. So
about an eighty one percent chance of a rate cut.
Reason being, Powell highlighted that there's he used the term
curious balance between the labor market and inflation, which that's

(01:54:16):
his whole job. The Fed has a dual mandate. The
end of the day, he's got two responsibilities, keep inflation
in check and keep unemployment as high as possible without
full unemployment because that's not necessarily a good thing either.
Both of those things are in balance right now. I
think what he what he's saying without saying, is that
he's worried that tariffs have not yet had their full impact.
He doesn't want to, you know, bring on any more

(01:54:38):
attention from Trump than he already has, and so he's
going to keep quiet about that. But that's that's the
one thing he hints at that that's still a concern.
We just haven't seen the full impact of tariffs. Well,
I guess a lot of the talk about this interest
rate cuts relates to labor markets, and I have seen
cheese I as for the last couple of days, half

(01:54:59):
a dozen and articles about the illegal immigrant crackdown. The
closing of the borders effectively reducing the inflow of illegal
immigrants to nothing and the ejection of by way of
a deportation of a lot of immigrants has got the
immigrant community afraid because they're afraid of getting arrested, meaning
they're no longer participating in the job markets. Out of

(01:55:20):
this fear over being chucked out of the country. Is
that really I mean, is there that much illegal immigrant
employment out there that it has an impact on our
economy to that degree. Well, Nebraska seems to think so.
I mean, there's a lot of fears coming out of
that state that they're going to be requesting assistance for farmers.
And actually Trump has responded to this and talked about

(01:55:42):
putting some programs in place for farmers who have lost
their workforce. So that is a real thing. Is it
happening in a widespread manner? No, not yet, But I
have to think as much as we were relying on
that for labor, and I think back in the days
of twenty twenty five years ago, we built a house
up in the northern suburbs of Cincinnati, which was the
front tier at that time, and there were a lot
of presumably maybe legal, maybe not, guys hanging out in

(01:56:05):
front of home depot just waiting for somebody to come
to them and say, hey, we need work. I haven't
seen that in a very very long time, but I
do remember there was that that happened everywhere during that
whole housing boom thing. So yeah, it wouldn't shock me
at all if that is bigger than we think, because
it's also a headline that's not necessarily friendly to the
current administration, right, and we know our media is definitely

(01:56:26):
picking and choosing based on what they are being hinted
that they should.

Speaker 4 (01:56:29):
They always choose. You know, it's interesting ripple effect. You
can't go to home depot and load your truck up
with four or five guys and take them over to
your house and have them do the landscaping work. They're
not there anymore. They're afraid of getting thrown out of
the country. Let's say they're illegal immigrants that traditionally do that.
What do you have to do as a home owner.
You're either going to do it yourself, or you're going
to hire a contractor a licensed landscaper who's going to

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do the job. So that's going to cost you more
money though, So that's an inflationary reality.

Speaker 5 (01:56:56):
That's the reality, and so that's what we're terrified. Jar
Powell is waiting to see. He's waiting for those kinds
of things. Obviously he's looking more than just our landscaping,
but he's waiting for those kinds of things to trickle
all the way through. So if we're going to remove
this labor supply that necessarily has to have an impact.
We just haven't seen it yet, although in some corners
we are starting to see inflation perk up just a

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little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:57:19):
Well, and I think of the farming that you mentioned
from Nebraska. Obviously people are needed to pick crops to
get I mean, we always refer to and really I
find it insulting jobs and Americans won't do what. We're
so lofty and above everything that we won't do, you know,
manual labor jobs. I thought that was ridiculous. But okay,

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if you have illegal immigrants who are willing to work
for a lot less money, why because they're here illegally,
illegally and they're on precarious ground, and their families back
in wherever they came from need the money because they
send a lot of money out. That's who's going to
do the jobs. So Americans won't do it for that rate.
But is there a rate at which Americans would actually
go out and pick strawberries?

Speaker 5 (01:57:59):
You know, I like to think there is, But talking
to the people that I talk to, I'm not sure
that we are a society anymore that values that level
of backbreaking work the way that we used to. So
I'm going to give a lot of leeway there. For
I'm going to say immigrants are far there's more in
it for them. For somebody who's struggling to make something,
they're willing to sacrifice that versus somebody who already has

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something it's just looking to maintain. That second person is
not going to work as hard.

Speaker 4 (01:58:25):
Yeah, they're not worried about keeping up with the Joneses
by way of perception, are they.

Speaker 5 (01:58:29):
No, not at all. That's never a problem.

Speaker 4 (01:58:31):
Ever, So, if you grow up in a silver spoon
in your mouth environment, which really anybody in the United
States does by way of comparison to third world countries,
which is where a lot of the illegal immigrants come from,
you're never going to get them out on the farm exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:58:45):
That's exactly. And we're starting to see this come through
too in terms of how farmers are being impacted and
margins are being squished anyway, So in July of twenty five,
corn and soybean futures fell to about a nineteen year
inflation adjusted low. Production costs of course didn't change, and
so they're making even less. Farmers are spending more on
production than they're actually receiving so that that is the

(01:59:06):
kind of thing that is going to circulate through and
it'll surface at some point.

Speaker 10 (01:59:10):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:59:10):
And the other thing that's creeping into the farming industry
is modern technology and sort of robotic picking of various crops.
And there are a lot of solutions out there that
are available, but if you're going to go that direction,
you've got to be able to afford to invest in it,
and I can't imagine that comes at a cheap cost.

Speaker 5 (01:59:25):
Yeah, so you're not talking about the Johnson family farm
up the street that suddenly has robots working the fields.
You're talking about big corporations and honestly, many times owned
by foreign entities that are buying up farmland so that
they can get the scale going to put that type
of equipment in place. So at some point we'll be
talking about how farm production is up and everything's wonderful,
except it's not employing people to do it. It's just

(01:59:46):
putting more money in.

Speaker 4 (01:59:47):
Pockets, and it's going to be the further destruction of
the small farm.

Speaker 5 (01:59:51):
If it makes the headlines in that manner, I suspect
we will focus much more on the profit margin of
farms versus.

Speaker 4 (01:59:56):
The people who have been displaced. Well, maybe we need
micro to do a great segment on the value of
well picking crops.

Speaker 5 (02:00:05):
That would be a great idea. And maybe not worry
so much about the poor, hardworking robots out there trying
to raise their families.

Speaker 4 (02:00:12):
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Fifty five KRCD talkstation Doing Money, Money with Brian James
Freworth Financial frightening question. Is a little concerned about this
next topic? Brian James? Will the market craft suggesting that
is a possibility. It's always a possibility. But I've been
reading about this kind of thing ever since I was
a little kid, and you know, predictions are always out there,

(02:01:32):
but you know, opinions are like, we all got one, Brian,
what's the story on this one?

Speaker 5 (02:01:37):
Yeah, that's not that's not referencing opinions. That's referencing something else.
But anyway, yes, we do have all one of those.
Uh some of us too, maybe, but anyway, So, yeah,
so we're starting to hear the rumblings and this is
where we are in the cycle of potential pullback. And
that's just where the voices, you know, kind of get
a little bit louder because we're willing to listen to
them when we get paranoid. Whenever the market is at

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a peak. And if you did not panic in April
when we all freaked out about tariffs and the market
stampeded the wrong direction and then we went, oh, okay,
I guess this isn't that big of a deal and
got it all back and it moved on to higher highs.
If you didn't panic at that time or any time prior,
you should have more money right now than you've ever
had in your entire life. That is a good thing.
Best advice I can give is do not get married

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to that high water mark. It is a mirage. We
will step back. We always have. We stepped back earlier
this summer, earlier in August for how don't even remember,
and I don't care, but the market did pull back
a couple percent because it didn't like the headlines at
the time. Three steps forward, two steps back. So what
we're hearing is there's an article from Chris Wattling, who's

(02:02:39):
the CEO at Longview Economics, not one of the big ones,
but not one of the little ones either. But he's
highlighting some things that he sees as historically indicative of
a market pullback, such as unusually low trading volumes, which
can mean that investors are already fully invested. That often
precedes a sharp decline what he calls valuation froth, which
just means that twenty percent of stocks are high valuations,

(02:03:01):
you know, over ten x of their enterprise value. Single
stock call action up to activity, which is basically just
a lot of attention, a lot of hype on individual
and then probably nineteen other things that he says are
going to bring the next downturn. Now, what I can
guarantee is that he is correct. I guarantee the market's
going to pull back. The question is when we don't
ever get to know that? So we shouldn't spend a

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lot of time and energy thinking about it, should we?

Speaker 4 (02:03:24):
Bran Like so many things, you know, they have an
article it's designed to get you all anxious and worked up,
and it's like, well, ay, there's nothing I can do
about it, So why would I get myself get worked
up over something over which I have no control. That's
my primary reaction to things like that.

Speaker 5 (02:03:40):
Absolutely, and this shouldn't be impacting anyway. The money that
you're going to pay the bills with this month, this week,
even really this next several months. That money should be
protected somewhere in a nice money market fund where you're
currently getting three maybe four percent. Don't get married to
that either, because that's going to come down in September.
But those dollars will be there for you to pay
the bills that frees up your life longer term dollars

(02:04:01):
to ride the roller coaster of all the goofy things
that mister Watling thinks are going to impact us in
the near future.

Speaker 4 (02:04:06):
Yeah, the idea that anybody looks at their four oh
one K account is some sort of like it's there
and anytime I need it, I can pull some money
out of it. That's a recipe for disaster, Brian.

Speaker 9 (02:04:16):
It really is.

Speaker 5 (02:04:17):
And I do it too. I look at it too
much when we're on the upswing because I like to
see the number go higher than it's ever been. But
I've been doing this job for thirty years, so I
know at some point I'm gonna quit looking at it.
It'll be like six months before I look at it again,
and then I'll go in make sure it's rebalanced and
so forth. But whatever is happening day to day does
not impact myself or my family here in the short run.
That money is for the ten, fifteen to twenty year timeframe.

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My shorter term money is invested.

Speaker 4 (02:04:39):
Very differently well, and in terms of investing shorter term money,
if I got bills to pay, it's never going to
make it into an investment vehicle. Correct, my bank account,
you know? And what do you get in a bank account?
A point and a half maybe exactly in your bank account.

Speaker 5 (02:04:54):
Yeah, that's what. But that's where I'm saying, be open minded.
And we've talked about this before. If your bank is
famous for having brick and order branches on every street corner,
they're also going to be famous for not paying you
very much on your depository accounts. Open your mind a
little bit to the online only ones where they even
still big institutions that may not have branches all over
the place. If you if you're a depositor of one
of those banks, you have to pay for all that

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real estate, even though you may not have seen it
in the inside of one of them for years. So
just know that that's not where you're going to get
your best yield. You should be getting at least three
percent though on those cash dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:05:24):
Yeah, I guess you should. I get just real quick
here we talk about the market value does it bear
any connection with old school norms anymore? Brian. I mean
I used to look at a company's earnings potential, what
they own, you know, pe ratios and things, and I
see so many meme stocks being traded, and somebody sort
of like, I just scratch my head and wonder, how

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is it that they have any value whatsoever? And just
kind of wonder if the whole market is kind of
that way anymore.

Speaker 5 (02:05:52):
Yeah, there's a much greater willingness to invest in things
that don't have a clearly identifiable value proposition, Like you said,
meme coins, meme stocks, things that are just there. People
like them because they like them. They have a value
because people say that they do. I would throw gold
into the Gold used to be the only thing, the
only big thing really that had no measurable, calculable value,

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but people would just flock to it every now and then.
Now we've got all these other things that attract money,
and it can be really tempting to throw a bunch
at it, because you're looking at that saying, why why
do I be all these fuddy duddy dividend producing industrial
stocks when I can own a doge coin and it
goes up a bazillion percent in the short run. Well,
we tend to lose sight of what happens in the downturn.
You really really got to be okay with that roller coaster,

(02:06:36):
and there will be no way to predict what's coming
and when. Not to mention, the people behind them get
paid off the activity and the frost, not the idea
that it goes up and stays up. They can go
up and down. They're on both sides of it, so
you have to understand where the incentive comes from.

Speaker 4 (02:06:51):
Amen, And I get the impression of those meme stocks
are a hell of a lot more volatile. They may
go up for a little while, and they go down
and sometimes never go back up again.

Speaker 5 (02:06:59):
The herd stamp feeds them up, it stampedes them right
back down, but you can't predict it.

Speaker 4 (02:07:03):
Well, I'll tell you what, Brian. It's always a great
conversation every Monday, Money Monday at Brian James A to
five here on the fifty five carssee morning Show. Thank
you again to all Worth for one anding out in
this Monday. I look forward to talking with you next Monday,
and I hope you have a great week, Brian. Have
a good week.

Speaker 5 (02:07:15):
Talk to you next week.

Speaker 4 (02:07:15):
Thanks brother. Coming up at eight twenty five fifty five
Cara City Talk Station Johnson's or the man behind Save
Hyde Park Square. We'll get an update on what's being
going on with the well connected developers. Are they making concessions?
It might work. It's on the ballot this November. Hyde
Park ability to choose its own direction as a ballot initiative.
John Zinzer, He'll be on next if you can stick around.

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Speaker 4 (02:08:37):
It's eight twenty nine, fifty five ker Cit talk station.
Very happy Monday to you. Bryan Thomas, please to welcome
back to the fifty five Carric Morning Show. One of
the men behind the Save Hyde Park Square initiative, a
ballot initiative that's going to be It's on a ballot
in this November. Of course we'll be choosing council members.
We'll be choosing a mayor, maybe a new one, and
of course my Hyde Park friends get the opportunity as

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well as everybody else in the city to vote on
self control is what I call it. Welcome back to
John Zenzer, Save Hyde Park Square. Good to have you
back on the show.

Speaker 3 (02:09:07):
Nice to be with you, Brian, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:09:09):
Okay, so yeah, everybody and his brother working on this.
From all the neighborhoods in the city of Cincinnati, maybe
some of them joined the effort for Hyde Park to
control its own destiny, because, like bond Hill, the city
government elected officials. The mayor said no, we're going to
allow this well connected developer to do what it wants
in spite of the fact that it violates the citywide
zoning ordinance, the Connected Community Ordinance. They did the same

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thing to bond Hill, but every neighborhood in the city
of Cincinnati got subjected to the Connected Communities plan, So
one size fits all, unless, of course they're well connected developers.
That obviously was insulting to the residents of Hyde Park,
who were very loud and seemed to me to be
almost uniform in their objection to the current plan, which

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was to have that massive hotel and additional parking spaces
and all the redesign So you get to choose. Now,
I re read it's probably been several weeks John, but
that the quote unquote well connected developers were planning on
making some concessions, hopefully to appease the residents of Hyde Park.
So with that background and add any details you want

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to John, where are we currently on that?

Speaker 3 (02:10:16):
I appreciate that, Brian, I don't think. I think the
first thing is it's not just the residents of Hyde Park,
as you were saying earlier on this is a city
wide issue. And we did have fourteen different communities who
took votes and wrote letters to the city saying, please
don't do this, we don't agree with it, we don't
think it's a good idea, and the city's response to
that was crickets. So that was not very encouraging. There

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has been some motion, and where we are right now
is the developer actually came to Hyde Park the community,
both the Hyde Park Neighborhood Council and the Safe hyde
Park Square Group after we turned in those eighteen thousand
plus signatures that put this on the ballot, and they
came to us and they asked very clearly, could we

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have a conversation would be possible to discuss what things
would possibly work and not And they asked abundantly clearly,
for complete confidentiality while that was going on. While that
conversation was happening, as you might have noticed, on Friday,
there was a pretty remarkable drop of some new images.
What they thought they would do, and an article that

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ran in the Business Career which ran within an hour
of us getting roughly an hour of us getting that information.
Confidentiality has not been the strong suits, I would say
for these discussions, and it was a very tough day
to look at these things because previously in these discussions

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what had happened we talked very clearly about the zoning
is is fifty feet. You've known that all along. Everybody's
seen that they wanted to go originally to eighty five feet,
and with the PD they might have been able to
go as far as ninety three feet without any community input.
That's almost one hundred percent beyond the zoning. Not quite.

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What we've come back to them and said is, hey,
how about sixty two feet, which is a twenty five
percent increase over the over the zoning, And what we
got dropped on us was something of fifty percent over
the zoning. They wanted to start at seventy five feet,
and it's been communicated to them before. That's not something

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that the eighteen thousand plus people who voted for this,
who are from all over, who signed the petition for
the excuse me, who are from all over the city,
can accept and that's not something that safe Hyde Park
Square is comfortable going forward with.

Speaker 4 (02:12:46):
That's not reasonable.

Speaker 3 (02:12:47):
That's literally only five feet down from what the developers
said they were going to do to the city because
they came down to eighty and then the city kindly
said no, no, no, we're going to give you those
five feet back. Why don't you do that. It's been
a really tough weekend in that regard. The conversations have
been ongoing. We're trying to see but even more than

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way where you are separated in terms of the size
of the building. The developer is now saying they don't
want to have a written agreement. They don't want to
have a contract, if you will, for what's been agreed to.
I don't know about you, Brian. I've never bought a
house without a contract. I've never bought a car without
a contract. I've never done work for you know, I've
been a consultant without a contract. I'm not very comfortable

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with that idea. I don't know how you are and
some of your others owners would feel about that.

Speaker 4 (02:13:37):
John's Lizzard, the lawyer in me, is laughing right now.
I can't believe they had the audacity to suggest that
or say it out loud. Here's a fun question for you,
John z Inzer, the developer. The developer is willing to
chop off some of the height that the city granted him. Right,
you just got done saying that. Then you said the
city said no, no, no, no, go ahead and keep

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the extra height.

Speaker 12 (02:14:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:14:01):
I happened in the Equitable Growth and Housing Committee meeting
back in April where they came and they made a
big deal about the concession they've made, and we have
some other quote unquote concessions that they've made we can
talk about. But they said, you know, we've come down
five feet and the city solicitor is actually the person
said because there were some other questions about things in

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their requests for the PD and they ended up making
this incredible millange. And when I say they, that's actually
the city.

Speaker 4 (02:14:29):
Yeah, made this mix of.

Speaker 3 (02:14:30):
The first proposal of the second proposal, refined, et cetera,
and it actually gave Poky more than what they had
asked for at that point.

Speaker 4 (02:14:40):
Well, clearly the city is in the corner of this
well connected developer. Clearly, if the developer itself was willing
to make concessions that might have and I know it
didn't appease the residents of Hyde Park, but it might have.
But there's the city interjecting its nose any of the equations,
saying no, no, no, no, we don't care what you're
negotiating with the residents of Hyde Park, go ahead and

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build it.

Speaker 3 (02:15:00):
Likely pre negotiating at that point. At that point, there
was no conversation, negotiation, and that really was all we
were asking for along and that's what we've been saying
to the whole city, and that's what the city turned
around and said, yes, we want to say in what
goes on in neighborhoods. And that's actually what the vote
will be if it goes to the vote. There are

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a couple of ways where it doesn't have to and
may but the eighteen thousand signatures is what finally brought
the development into conversation with the community. And now as
things are getting close, there's a lot of energy, a
lot of talk about who else might need to be involved.

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The city's involvement, of course, has to be there in
one regard, but if city council wants to do something
at the moment, this would be a great time for
them not to get involved. In terms of running the discussion.
But to turn to the developer and say, look, dropping
a seventy five foot set of drawings and they're not

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really drawings, they're not architectural drawings. They're just some impressions,
if you will, things that might be. They don't serve
any purpose in terms of planning. But to do that
on a Friday without sharing them with the community before
you put them into the press and then saying something
that you were told is fundamentally not really a starter
even for them. It's now time for city council if

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they want to do anything, to turn to their friends
at fee okay and say you've got some distance to
go towards the community.

Speaker 10 (02:16:36):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (02:16:36):
And that needs to happen right now, and it has
to end up in writing. If it's not going to
end up in writing, why are we talking?

Speaker 4 (02:16:45):
What would be what's the point of this exercise? Johns
inter pause. I want to bring it back. I want
to talk about if the measure passes on the ballot November,
what does it mean, is it over period in the story?
What is it going to mean? And then some of
the other points of concession that might resolve the issue.
More with Johnson's or Save Hyde Park Square. I'll be
right back.

Speaker 8 (02:17:02):
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Speaker 4 (02:17:06):
Hey neighbor, the talk station. We're talking about saving Hyde
Park Square, a bout initiative on the ballot thanks to
the efforts of John Zinzer and so many others circulating
petitions get the I mean eighteen thousand signatures. That is
a lot of folks who want to steer the direction
of their own neighborhoods in terms of development. And you know,
as you describe the current situation between this well connected
developer and the Hyde Park Square in the City of Cincinnati,

(02:17:28):
I mean I wanted Joe to hit the Shenanigans button
because this just does not sound kosher at all. John.
But let me ask you this simple question. If the
measure that's on the ballot allowing the community's direct their
own future and mixing this Hyde Park development effectively, what
does that mean going forward for any given neighborhood, whether
it's Hyde Park or Bond Hill or anyplace else.

Speaker 3 (02:17:51):
Sure, well, there's a two step process to get there.
First off, on the fourth of September, City Council meets again.
City Council has the opportunity to rescind their own vote.
They could reverse and say, yeah, we understand, we hear
all those you now, and we are going to reverse

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the vote that we took granting this proposed this planned
development something called a PD to the developer.

Speaker 10 (02:18:20):
Right.

Speaker 3 (02:18:20):
The other option is if they don't do that, then
they have to send the paperwork to the Hamilton County
Voting with the election board, and that would be how
it gets on the ballot. Now, if it passed the ballot,
which I feel very comfortable with because the question isn't
do you want this building in Hyde Parker On? The

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question is do you want to say in what happens
in your neighborhood city wide? And I think everybody who
most people will go for I'd like to say in
my neighborhood, whether I've lived there for a couple of
years or whether I've lived there for generations. And we
have people in this effort who have been here for
more then two and three generations on this. If it

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goes to that, what it will do it would cancel.
If the vote went the way we wanted to, it
would say no, they may not have the planned development
zoning exception. That's the good news. There's the tough piece
of news that doesn't end the thing with the developer.
They still own the property right and they should be

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able to do something with it, and we'd like that
to happen. All along, our message has always been smart development,
work with us, let's build something. We want the commercial
space that they're talking about. We want the apartments as
we should do something more and better with that space,
and it's possible. The signs around town all say it's

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just too big. The point is to bring it into relevancy.
So if the vote goes the way that we want,
the bad news is that the developer could show up
the next day and file the same paperwork again, effectively
start all over again. I think that would be a
really unfortunate pr move as well. But they may come

(02:20:08):
into a little bit of difference. And there's something I
know you care very much about, who's council going to
be then I know they don't start the next day,
but if there's some council members who change, and it
seems very possible. The seven people who voted against us
back in April, I think some of them are looking

(02:20:29):
to their left and looking to their right and going
I'm not so sure, and I know none of them
want to go out into the election out campaigning with
this issue, along with several others that we're not talking
about around their neck. This would be a real burden
or real anchor on somebody trying to run for council

(02:20:50):
again having voted against.

Speaker 4 (02:20:52):
This well, and I guess if they leave it on
the ballot, they don't revoke the waiver, then that's the
risk that they face because it is most assuredly a
campaign issue and their refusal to listen to the residents
of Hyde Parker Bonn Hill or any the other communities
that have been impacted by their zoning edicts and mandates.
They're gonna have to hold. They're gonna have to be
accountable for that, They're going to answer questions about it.

(02:21:15):
So that puts them in a precarious position. If they
vote to revoke it, we're back. I mean, it doesn't
buy you in Hyde Park any comfort whatsoever. Because they
revoke it, the developer, as you point out, could come
back the next day and say here, I've got a
proposal and it's got eighty five foot and they could
approve that and you'd be back to square one and
you'd be having another ballot initiative.

Speaker 3 (02:21:35):
It is possible, but I think with the attention thanks
to people like you, the media have brought to this,
with the effort of the more than three hundred circulators
who moved to those petitions around the city, and with
the effort with the art signs on, I don't think that.

Speaker 6 (02:21:52):
That would go very well.

Speaker 4 (02:21:53):
We wouldn't and I think, well all.

Speaker 3 (02:21:58):
I do think enough of the developer. They also have
to consider their future, their plan, and you wouldn't want
to die on this hill. To put it that way,
I don't think that would be the best move for
them at all. I'm not done, though, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:22:14):
Where they'd go.

Speaker 3 (02:22:15):
The best thing they could do right now, and I
think the best thing for the city would be a
negotiated agreement that comes in somewhere around the sixty two
foot mark. Yes, you said you wanted to talk a
little bit about some of the other.

Speaker 4 (02:22:29):
Quote unquote concession.

Speaker 3 (02:22:30):
Please let me cross off a couple really quickly. One
was originally there was a hotel in this plan, but
the developer wrote multiple times in different places the hotel
is actually kind of a liability for us. It's not
something we're really keen on. So for them to take
that away doesn't feel like much of a concession. Lately,
the spokesperson for the developer has been saying often, well,

(02:22:53):
and we're coming down on the amount of commercial space
that's available. That's never been an inch stern issue for
Hyde Park. We want the commercial space there, and we
want it to be thoughtful and careful. But nobody on
this side has ever said no, no, no, that's way
too much commercial space. The zoning says no hotel, so
that's why there should be no hotel. The community says,

(02:23:15):
let's do some smart commercial work. Let's do that, And
somehow the developers decided that that's a big concession that
they're making. The really tricky one that does come down
to size, and they were looking at eighty five feet.
You know, that's a lot of footage. When you come
to sixty five sixty two feet that we were talking about,

(02:23:36):
that brings them down to six stories, right instead of
probably eight. But at six stories, one of the things
that they need that extra footage for, apparently is the
cabana to go with the pool on top of the building. Now,
I understand we have housing issues in this city, and

(02:23:56):
we're trying to build square footage. And that's another good
reason why the hell never should have been on top
of the owner. But if they need more footage for
a pool cabana on the top of the building, what
kind of apartment building are we really talking about? Nothing?
That's nothing, that's nothing that's going to be anywhere near

(02:24:19):
what the average person could afford or even And we
did the numbers on this previously. The average income for
Hyde Park couldn't even afford what we're talking about here. Oh,
it's complicated, So let's just not forget these are luxury apartments,
not something that's going to help the city meet its

(02:24:42):
current needs.

Speaker 4 (02:24:43):
Well, I wouldn't. Honestly from my perception of Hyde Park,
it's a wealthy community. I don't think anybody can deny that.
And the idea that you're gonna end up with affordable
housing in Hyde Park, John, You know what they say, location, location, location.
You have a wonderful location which is going to drive
rents a period, end of story.

Speaker 3 (02:25:02):
So yeah, and the goal is to keep the wonderful location.

Speaker 1 (02:25:07):
Yes, And this building as.

Speaker 3 (02:25:09):
Originally proposed at eighty five feet did that end? These renderings,
these projections that were dropped on Friday afternoon not really
shared with the community. Their negotiating partner. They don't keep
anything of the spirit of Hyde Park architecture. In my opinion,

(02:25:30):
I'm an architect, I'm not a developer. But I was
looking at the picture and thinking Houston, Atlanta, places like that.
I was not thinking Hyde Park Square. I was at
the Farmer's Market yesterday, absolutely packed, a live, buzzing, great feel,
incredibly beautiful. And I look at those drawings again. I

(02:25:52):
look at those, those projections, those imaginations from selective views
of a couple of things. I go, that's not the
same place.

Speaker 4 (02:26:00):
No, it's not. I've seen some of the renderings and
I understand the objection to it, just visually looking at them,
going wow, that doesn't look like anything like Hyde Park.
So John Zinzer, I wish you all the best in
the world. Definitely get it. In writing, and just Strecker suggested,
make sure it's on something more than a cocktail napkin,
recalling spinal tail.

Speaker 10 (02:26:20):
Do that.

Speaker 3 (02:26:20):
Okay, We'll take that forward and send no cocktail napkins.

Speaker 4 (02:26:24):
Please.

Speaker 3 (02:26:25):
Thank you, Brian. I really appreciate your time and your.

Speaker 4 (02:26:27):
Anytime, anytime. John you got any developments, you got some
movement on the part of the developer or whatever. You
have an open form here on the fifty five carsee morning.
You should to keep people up to speed on it.
I certainly appreciate all of your efforts in this regard.

Speaker 3 (02:26:39):
Thank you, and a lot of other people as well
ireate it.

Speaker 4 (02:26:42):
BR You're always giving them credit and credits due. Thank
you very much, John. We'll talk again soon. Eight fifty
right now, fifty five kr SE the talk.

Speaker 7 (02:26:48):
Station, fifty five KRC.

Speaker 4 (02:26:51):
Your financial goals are unique